Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2b885429ef7115d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2021-08-06 08:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f564e7813f1c014dfada509c59a44e58 SHA-1: 3ecc26b4c2e2f9f072884a098a1cda4e7e07b595 SHA-256: f2b885429ef7115d92b55924ac29dcaf3509aab1a40b0fbd77f5bf62a06b98c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsqrftdf6odvvp1apsg382irmb/65077048970.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/bibewonotesemisufowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210715084422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a5a81df1a---53739902425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/jawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c7115df2c---nipudokuziketitemerod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607887ea3dcaa---kezulajajamomagufiwarijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/vamudegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/naturomalunenixizufelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/98430211471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/tokuwekeramazajemeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/sometufefetesaxipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f583518e98---26140685877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/8157822022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/97900501130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a832376ea30e09e1c55db4214620ccad/67339061717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/mogolunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/29869089995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/39520342503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3f550be934e7fdf15a38214992ef9ea/54958527543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/28719253414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3863adb49b1199547fafe1d706cdbba4/56571166499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/48653674117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84825848375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa6e027c84---sibufelikowudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=die+tiefen+der+schmiede+alle+sch%C3%A4tzePDF 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_off0001372a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1372A 18592 bytes
SHA-256: f354b68f19250cbbb6a6577e376ae376db4e5c4b832730ea5df32a1534fc5c2b
font_01_sfnt_off00016577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16577 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017d8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D8E 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 50da202a686932c22617bfaaecdf602d53afda855b036a8b91b9d2684dfe0f7f