Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2805384072101ece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: dc320ec07f55d376c1aa281f1cd829c8 SHA-1: 8b26ec61db5141f2b25aab2964e0e902c5ef181f SHA-256: 2805384072101eceafc444a496793e13b7176fb3e8514d371dd089893d10c00d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to phishing or malware-hosting pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific content, but the presence of multiple external URIs strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=preparedness+101+zombie+apocalypse+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr51p1br1s8cjtru6n97ajgcms/gukogofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59567538637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhoptik.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxufepetavurax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clerus.hu/files/file/84777170269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/xejuzevidinus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546d3047c44c799dd30f5a502ac6b9c2/39126430439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7523d92fe66255718f06ef7ddeb5ed5/niduvabudizewutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/69683717780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhjo4vbb9ftqk6fr4a6u1cfal5/xuliwenojilemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0b370922f37515cb0a5a8d811bf4812/dubisidejuzopomidazoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60460d4093---jakilupepiwomupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///41200068541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05bc9c6a1a8558a8b10a26418cbdb4a6/bifunisibapojevakuletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e07b050b64---zitoziwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec6b37325e84ed3bea7a39107ae0a3d/8195687147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/10080812992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17996074528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.org/img/upload/file/mejuginojasofajujukitufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmaramures.ro/userfiles/file/17361912483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92dbbf031d9c1b88c22c58041495486f/mefesidubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e008d101459d593a3d6956d22a2107bc/zederi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ed03dd26d6ae19ecbb1a1707fe4329/gafisumajorepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e47993e7d2---23704315193.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001083e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1083E 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 7abdfc393c6aa9274e508b4a4a5f504481de840f8739b14f550b9a5f78790253
font_02_sfnt_off00012225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12225 18920 bytes
SHA-256: 6380c3e10f3cb42085674decfa0afe6a4050db299d52c62597c9d2233f8318fc