Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db2be92c1a28a81a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e0eec2ad56420141f9abeb37a0fbe89b SHA-1: 5bba48ee8e3a9214f1816bd9c2e513501655d0e9 SHA-256: db2be92c1a28a81a3158c763bd7fd76c0d70d06fe3a20d9882b6154a5a3ff1dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25be5b9fac618051124b1c3d4d20b890/31471516915.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spotiverify.com/ci/userfiles/files/dedude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42030241402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377980684b0---13646632017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/24165774530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marklaliberte.com/fckupload/file/85508980040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5880032944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/jevoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/34282790137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/suxepelavosososab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmottaviproductive.it/uploads/file/gubelutipusare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/xonivomulikiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f18cb1bbce---56888394198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mojolanexenozuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59849356877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/tasagegajakefixenerajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/vabovuvikusofinisakewaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmsp-me.com/userfiles/files/46102788805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/86302881668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25095403737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/fojagikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614639f5113ea---57626884416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/jinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents/files/81224995756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+show+time+with+secondsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000bfb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7CA 18684 bytes
SHA-256: 6eed9e49003ac9a6cd252c80fe3384694600398aea6ba83e55c42d710ea9d426
font_02_sfnt_off0001087c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087C 10492 bytes
SHA-256: e772fe865515db8cf8bdb577b41e58c97e2c6cca47b79dbacbae7d1e681def7e