Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2ba68015694df8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:08:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4ea7f29ec3472163c239ad6dfd095761 SHA-1: a5c181a0236f486cd092cc65e7d80cfa11cb2ab0 SHA-256: d2ba68015694df8b355902464bca0f4c4102a604ff72e21f3f40d238578e47cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=small+almond+acrylic+nails PDF link annotation
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c589abc1fd---wunolaboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhsclassof70.com/clients/a/ac/acf0241a72c9eb28a719a759cf8a4748/File/2623847635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/96200682767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd8720fecd---bodivebonawazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/ligikokolijomilekakosaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44r144v93a2de80ofauf5oet04/pabasirutetibinodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/44385483997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f9dae7e21---36073130748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d8c2843ea---62409923816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/gedomumavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9i84c9i353odm0pg4scj1fin/30075389133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b4d3a593a93fb52e31dd5d8dcbc002/bipetomotodegukisoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7hisp1cst653cof1lgujukbeh/66117328373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/54396838774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c0760a90---papadaxeropolurunijosikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a764c51443---955711688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609306f4785a4---55281156573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccaae520b9---55882915766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/bofukovesugararefozogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/jadefugobiweburinule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1d6305180b90333a07b3959c1e6aa0a/tulevugitiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52927a2d6---90576930465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF63 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 20aba9ce288cb93bf8757f026ef0d2b24577ed4ad3009ed44a4b317d86317453
font_01_sfnt_off0001071c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071C 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 65524cb8389037db3150a9de26f7c45f7a923ad2b17c131ef3faccd14eae0af5
font_02_sfnt_off0001331b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1331B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1