Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2487bf8b98e5b1d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 20890410463b833a7a3892d593ccb34c SHA-1: 4f12e499a1157d7b3ec7ae0ad9a1a5e9aa142c72 SHA-256: 2487bf8b98e5b1d6c7cddaa8f10f5170805df6a008582a57f888a411cbe54c51
156 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. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which are often used to host phishing pages or distribute further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially track user interactions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609202a724948---wululureturipoka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607305e100a4e---32474040759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c74984b49---88485020978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/bopupigamesamulido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cdfde0fb4---jopuwologuluvazokadowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b536d5f8981d7b7bd5462701b12fb0bb/fujiburumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/2253881795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a09e54fbbade8d8df5098b2e0509b522/33136978088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv26j3hq3sk7b69n653qabqs2j/62928700654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccf1e661b8---92186430670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee616eqe7v6e5r9mo76ctf743e/satopiwevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tprmk42mg7edlstq2nkdli9i1/19362775792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d93992fa1b687a34548cb727d92397/torizipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/58752864330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/73168604525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1m23c9mcn9jmi0jjrgov852jes/lolofirogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/2512104112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3576c6f9953089742fc2cb99dd963460/49130511896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/fasoninase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc45836277e209a6bf817505f68bc395/vuzitewixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abb230a019588a1c4e1e5d4e6de4e7c6/goworadepiwararemokami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coxfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/56/566bc9ad745482f371977770c3e6b383/File/ludexonubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8fe133a0fba4f4b6b7700018f03e948/56784205288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=yoshi+with+sunglassesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC2 10456 bytes
SHA-256: e35ee688605c0ed915f951ace1ebc7c6a6511560ad8ef8f87968a862264e524a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE489 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 07e25009b7fc2cdf461ac1a3eb711e87c364e211b94bf4741a7b87b15d313445
font_02_sfnt_off00011157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11157 4508 bytes
SHA-256: 03921a37ee20386ce21fa55c56b1874637954e3d2fe2f6839ca66b5f5210cae6
font_03_sfnt_off000122b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1