Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2394a60ae2b91a7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 15:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b3796d40d0d1900922f23d4ab77f7ae0 SHA-1: b331b101243a2825536e85bdb704c7fdeb7301a6 SHA-256: 2394a60ae2b91a7ab7ce7cf20bd867b03857e859a448b06cb4d7ca7e3e85a71a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. These links are likely used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=this+somebody+that+somebody+break+your+heart PDF link annotation
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c492926bc70---57603258808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c5fec4433375b83c1708b4bca0a17a/27754330385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b297ac3087---43022436556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/sosedenaxodonisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d69a6de6e5c6c456742b149f369b79e4/69817616466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/34195138880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166d36f018080caa9bd5d2646722dea2/wekujexoxuzosavidotugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b82853da78---11692972683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/pebodixinugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/fumiposaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/vixasagofetexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90v6ij6u6kd8f37eelv6smrq36/73438998107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariangelesorrico.com/galeria/files/vilidevasexasodosiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afced87c92---61991150071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7faacb1574---68223292810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac49acedde5926a80efa3f3b4dbd763/fasoxilaxapurog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/59511551022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/8402364846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ce9c4cefd---jozeliwojifavepuzuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69fa4e75aeaa0f7afa5b0428490c5a3f/sulelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/vizoduzirunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ece13eefa7---12749586228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg25bsflvo78m8c0k94hrplj84/wirikemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/52675920657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0jmetb5p9il4hk6jsnrnligf4/repox.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_off0000b949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB949 14712 bytes
SHA-256: 9952eb88238711cb82d2ea269ee4220564cee051d7838e0219822cd0744b424e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE0 10772 bytes
SHA-256: a513dcae6f8a6d0a63bb576f7c953d168cbc1b481687ea7260111196e9716913
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1