Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2eb84ea6bb1b689…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:14:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f6114ff67dba4b4cb5c2f246606c86d3 SHA-1: 4eb3306a823ba8daa4d1d68ed43d2dffe8b35068 SHA-256: f2eb84ea6bb1b68945a955633f7f27c787f05f61ff71b5d3b11986beac42780a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised WordPress upload storage links further indicates a malicious intent to host or distribute further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+shippuden+254 PDF link annotation
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb7a8c73ab1d0acf0dc885d2c2cf4f3a/dopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamgi.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43821339045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/zibotidarabasonasizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove247.org/upload/files/59573328934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/xajisovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nayyaralidada.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xosezedupabigetelezunazum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/65471918974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613131b6b5e13---32448669058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/wogufokumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fdd812c63---kurakubitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvutalurazisulikamatimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/weliguxebiwigagopifixavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.com/userfiles/file/99055524748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be6f813dc8---78773027554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/85447757479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/51547612394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138577007f2b---15430079046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongdung.vn/ckeditor/images/files/terukejexuxumetokokagize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/38009998257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ec8f441b3---3236750459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/xikagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/94511081074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribovosif.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_off0000bb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD338 10852 bytes
SHA-256: afe80bf3a2657274969de79d3e8ceff03cc007be2e40a570832ea818512d1352
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5C 18560 bytes
SHA-256: ba35a42f5762735379cb7bf126dc8119154ba462600d4b3fab5b9b527f80482b