Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2b915237cd99655…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-30 19:41:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3c65de3cb3c40503c0bd1fbf4c779966 SHA-1: d6a1434c208d5bbc0f74d3062500cfd25afe5629 SHA-256: f2b915237cd99655fac7c1c418741f4ac436512062de9421196f618e68449d42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=infantry+squad+leader+initial+counseling PDF link annotation
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/dakunerozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijahlaurabishopblack.com/clients/b/be/bed082b287f5bb70db4763ab929fc18a/File/napemijozenisoxetov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4614d938d79367eb1f19c75cb75db0f/71750953573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/am6nipf5di0lqc4gofthmam72e/61286999522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/93001529476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850b5a26187---63109779208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/rinowatotinilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608194cd137c5---jorobujekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ceed423256---fotinebenibazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ij8po1fitua3aurc7g5vcoc4a/tufajujolarorugefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609084736e5d3---12342550421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f05461cab---83703671431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents//files/53902971770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a11e15978f---tusoviketosapimowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/fulilowuxifoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f84678kvmv240fj651s65i4b0/kitesanadoremen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5bde0af552---47032977029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/kugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du8lb9sqk0sfcutba5mpj407n5/18516301253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817de58e757---xezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/vetozuxufowimosi.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_off0000dc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4E 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 0f49da7bcb1af89556d9a0a3543e1709d38953e8f355e85e936a538dd5db5297
font_01_sfnt_off00010819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10819 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12030 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 08b92c60ff0760876abbc39c754e7896cd9cabc6411e64b18cd2b335cced50b8