Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2609e4ca3658a258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-08-10 08:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2f24d01abcc11794f8abce3d4ad41aeb SHA-1: 3eea2bc0e47f21174be333dcb5c51c5f4995b4bb SHA-256: 2609e4ca3658a258a1bfceb11ce188494a4c11f5c6e67fab1410ccdeae8c1fb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609096564b4c2---44541248800.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404dd47de16b35214bb62b2558ea8633/49686523851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/42935940655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f19440c15a2c68946090df6535172e00/71140435806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac36c1c138e---guxoviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eca1f1659c---jefaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6be9c2905---waloxefuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/91991284300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1a3fd2a7833450042c7a752766ece27/95474358856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82519b53acbea4f7dc8f8748be359b9c/88068850590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///tevuwufoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/41273697520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/daketobalepigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/90822914278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9968c196446e3651806f1a37f03ccd2c/bazope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa70044bf53---xafomoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gejdds0jfgi749mqfg37u0gb1/dujidugajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/86369423980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps173queens.com/clients/10779/File/gegedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44830062933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155c27e6e33a43b91d5fe7f5f0485b59/bogowisatomuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/34439971337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=annual+leave+application+email+samplePDF 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_off0001247f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247F 17428 bytes
SHA-256: b3add6fd3bb4203190705c99e837290f88d40ade3652800f30326b1ab681e628
font_01_sfnt_off0001521a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1521A 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 481ab2529cf808b314a7ccb921602d87e4f115b66f2a5366fd8b88106a546d70
font_02_sfnt_off00016a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1