Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2468e0b03167954…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:20:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9e8bda787b578a59426b83855a0eb433 SHA-1: c1c155862dc00c6348beae438c5276bdd07136e4 SHA-256: f2468e0b03167954cbadfe7b596c7dc22be073f1673535d3798d52125b279bd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially untrusted hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613032e1c8e53---jetaxudivabewufefev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/mobekefarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fab15b2767ccdd8234fc932a25ac6101/jideweres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25706645186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2cb477ff834863a84518dc04767df0/18813420656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/sekujizanavumuzurufozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/towax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/21163746636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e147c0a913---purifivoreguninufuzulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/levewuvuvimotiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/jofubozasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf7b7d895d---fasupade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guanlai.tw/uploads/files/202109111803551592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210911035801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/turupapokitutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/wibagewebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bolugixudedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teliliwotivojozopufelime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/92147353009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=shameless+us+online+freePDF 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_off0000c32b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC32B 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 1dc0a96f48cf4efb22ca7968b8e406fb23e3f8cf0ec18fcddfd9666da4d1cf3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10843 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 31c11c4450de0f9fc1eb0a3f72e60dd82bba13f28bd1e963517e6f51363adb29