Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2bdff8db98d12a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:00:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2abf8d0c8da6b4c869a11e15bc7975cf SHA-1: 1401bdc51ccc3505803623799b86258bad3a3991 SHA-256: f2bdff8db98d12a2e9ad9dfd4f196744b40259b7a7878a14a413325850e3d67c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier 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 redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=first+art+in+the+world PDF link annotation
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/76827986704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68d1ddd4e8---tufunanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6870546e2e---15577273879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/xoxofavedixusatupewebiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa85eab8e2b---sijowigamirerebup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/74570850080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/bipilokawamuzipugapan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee5766732a---46603010087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b66023be61---63005189265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a906ba4f6f---kilugeridutimijubemuzope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e2b30563b---busegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/togabejinopelixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6tu3546q6ehg6rib5u34g478m/31241592739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/60509101717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3780ae6879d1354909142922600caa7f/wifikejilavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/41962427885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/bikofizajazunufige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7084e65633---8344146552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/fubiwadugavozagaxedevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840f63bf1e8---boxuwagipelonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/57125286208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9269edbb8902ab797c8e3d7337f29a73/zebaxufokotuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd4a42fd85---60964197559.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_off00010744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10744 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5B 10408 bytes
SHA-256: a8626e0f09a63ae4c1f5dd10cb326b1028a6ba41aed8a2da22f06077d478c9fe
font_02_sfnt_off000136de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DE 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 5cfed1d68ef11ccb59c17838cd8d406e7b2fb8d8dc177f9876c60f13179f8c03

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