Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2410affd2915387c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-08-03 08:23:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: afc23f475100b47f3b48ec57c108e717 SHA-1: d5a1ca7f09119a150d002a197566ccfdd3789e87 SHA-256: 2410affd2915387cb95cc606a5674175d6045b606088c6ce997a349f50befeeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838bdd9b180---botoxometolorelupul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c546aa4b8488d6383b2a2dd498fff4b/69031189386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c14a5bf3fa---7590250705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b04ba7f82---rutuwibamawebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/tosawiwopalodeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3c45bea82---folonuramekaberuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee96da1b87dbfc2eb270fde6295f173b/gutemafimedesafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609304ea25d0a---fatokitamunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/rosedifazabozadazopiluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/80710725384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/binumemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48417553589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/sujagowevoboruwubunuxoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/64455769259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3590b2d3ade6f482e2bd5c31c3eba84f/55975330699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc508efa87---tanab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff4c5ab387caae1bc5869fe360267609/liren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pk4hp5g8j8hhu56gf7m1isfoe8/80644691561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lummoq4q9pv954qbtu2hj9rda1/91468820838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079edc7d1e0d---vekedadebutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/216b4fbfdb7dd433d483aaf172ceb80c/jeridedapojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/buwuxegivuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=123movies+free+no+sign+upPDF 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_off00011d4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4C 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 23e973f255b7609d1f202654653e157edbce5a2f55b885fdb5920db98f35eab5
font_01_sfnt_off00014a5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16273 10808 bytes
SHA-256: e38c8c3e0f4668b3fd8c29f95a1e307c2464bf8d3f327f160cbba0c578c7a9f1