Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2bd5892aeb2e599…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-08-10 03:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 49a75bd7d54d67589fe596d662e2c952 SHA-1: aed054f593d845aa4f8a5550314f5d2d40c82d89 SHA-256: f2bd5892aeb2e599d06356e2991f6df0d3f4c4abfb2b9ed59a89b564447f1752
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8aae6e7496f4fc67e4ac7645fa4c0a5/dunibajurijirefi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/gitizakodimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca61d52b6e---8777789423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/21713717655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cf6ac4c6d---86924772308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f6af132d6682e7cb5281cfc8be02198/98362661268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c8efca2b24bcc5d27f8719416c1a43e/zowogomatuvojesegatitivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105170045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210710104951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/22453377402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/vosafusutupasufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/57979639365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip9ofhd37ouolr5vk8c0u5sf0q/kodoferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicacademy.com/userfiles/file/vodiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6t49r2vbd9pvr0fjjb1scajaui/69453138831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d587b824d8cdfecc0aec8bd7c1bed0c/9859836883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a314445e16---jowarikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bartonsteel.com/tony/barton/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulexobidus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/jobewekewixidusumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutunaroramomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a567b705dda---70289107300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammensfilip.be/uploads/files/32704691717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104a2289ea7c---86269347237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizcsap.hu/files/file/fabugarokojutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f457da6d31---69011426044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=call+of+duty+mobile+hack+mod+apk+unlimited+money+2021PDF 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_off00010502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10502 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011d19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D19 11388 bytes
SHA-256: d452e4370e5f946e7a1cc06307884556073c40e56d56c6758ad10a6c37634e69
font_02_sfnt_off000137a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A6 17856 bytes
SHA-256: b3306d1f9fda0e352006b71c39db58ccd924dcd8a35e734fdeb31691e255e4c6