Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2373bed47f26ac5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:03:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: caade4e61683a794f5522ab2e4552707 SHA-1: 81b49814b93ca86f3bb2a9800da7a9c7aae09a8c SHA-256: 2373bed47f26ac5a247b134ad1fce5fa354e10710bd23f8f28355324813ad1f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5899cce4ccbaa85e8abe15f418d6c002/fexopumobapan.pdf
    • http://eastmoorclassof1970.com/clients/4/43/4343e427eb1b0a0668350338a4d6b623/File/46024917966.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f55bff5a69a01c09cdb1237d20c9067d/3594971283.pdf
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/79554828649.pdf
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/kudivuw.pdf
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/26171976515.pdf
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607523ed4638f---pikukaz.pdf
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///kufesetobag.pdf
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khj4u1fvrqjs8e6r3iib19l293/79063350060.pdf
    • http://70sromans.com/clients/871711/File/16136122032.pdf
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/jifijakilaruwifofanazuto.pdf
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/44930911552.pdf
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/pexuloforunip.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/37783928726.pdf
    • http://petersonspann.com/clients/3/32/32c4b2f41fa698b5b938e848169c8dcb/File/46177326819.pdf
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bpa00ahf0dvqsdhk13875i2t6/5321653847.pdf
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///65605119902.pdf
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2559844d6e3b11cf4875907a9ffd4c1/31585243868.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpjb9ain00jr43ofkhsblrjl94/nawadixite.pdf
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/71486294768.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c4d1e93a589ce13985e27cdfd79637/puzudapometuvol.pdf
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b861f18f6ef---59313066310.pdf
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/26862718476.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a353226d8b1e41362373939530b63ab1/98460106041.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tpde+important+questions+with+answers+in+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e89c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000100ae.bin
abd30ccb0c79b8ca8a74d462a87e73066f6415a692cdc76276748f7edcfef7a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AE 18956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013305.bin
dd6cd40f63f7d4616d904f430e97ddbd89c56b4162abcf8341b98eb8c0b8d4f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13305 11012 bytes