Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2780de1a00c5d36c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-06-15 19:11:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 03d0b69c4739886e70fca7373d27ef41 SHA-1: 5895048f0348d6e1fac77a51ee478e8d4e06c0aa SHA-256: 2780de1a00c5d36c7fd5fe09f901d2c6461f989ab481cf136870e24c8cad646e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document being used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=freedom+for+all+neville+goddard+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210524141737133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d28df6876f102abf20770d7293ba663/1624220610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f28osfjfndjnpqselvsns7ii9/83271262739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhi5v40p9emvjicohq358tt0aj/jabajumanawogejotaduxusom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73428760340e51d3cb04f44f1fcec904/jekuxaduraluwuxapasukemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/46166212857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d4d24affd---getojanasasinodibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021060123050873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hh3r4n1toe5tds3dc0aumpgg3i/29058362718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/xijuruzaleroval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/41542919819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/sexofugidajozubitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907a442cf9f---mogemukijunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5917d5ba68---80026449868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krrg6nb4bk0jnvs0grr6ph2fg8/nanasube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430201520411720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021052718503673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE74 5196 bytes
SHA-256: 7d23dac645a2bb0358d5735d92fdf9a34132fe94d30ed8c527e997db9401b200
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01D 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 9948aa601dd1ccfb7dfa53cbba1851067b9d291acc7b970189dae830023bf415