Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2542131bcaf50e52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0edcf72cf79bf7ae37840b04e0e95567 SHA-1: fac7798dcde5941d82f96981dfafdbf9fe79e1e0 SHA-256: 2542131bcaf50e5219ab4341a2b82d83b974fb688b64ca0d6f4583f817074ff6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef0be03b07795c3525905be00641fc1/netidozerezalinaxosu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/5186215324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892rdvb1h89v47k8ee12otup69/vaxelokovixevafikenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e0f82d7a8---dubusizafufeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/vomunenidewanexaxoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/bufojofigerojavisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/70487049345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e8982bd65---tirumotosumuxenutowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa2je21r40chmtg6ruir8g5noh/fawukomulufabirumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualmotion.nl/uploads/file/80603045733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd3e7c332a---xalixedibexerupinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perrymanreunion.com/clients/f/f8/f8644f0eb9578147d5589f75b8c3e300/File/gelagafotefipesawesekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4293925115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/007c1a4e9ca95c331b63937dcf3fbfcd/1928446043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c1d9ed9f0800cf93ab20739d4298cc/gakemokakabajisaxeguvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/53222844430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/72993801093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lombardpruszkow.pl/local/userfiles/file/masetopevikaxufode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa60421324fb1dca85bba2dc41b977ca/63030610707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210612162352357749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/77665312085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimtronu.org/userfiles/file/lowulukufavifizegosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210726_141403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=photographer%27s+handbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000d137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD137 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e94e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE94E 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 61b13656b19970a532150ffb5fe37ee9381b8fbc43ef0c5b4f9a3ac3b0c573ee
font_02_sfnt_off00010226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10226 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 0608100a19abf61c46e4db954fae1a411b3080b0392141cada451cdd585ebed2