Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2817620c7fb37b7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-09 04:22:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0dcfb429a5891c00ea43c6fb7545dbb6 SHA-1: 7811bb08384c94720238e9d50501ddebbeeaf832 SHA-256: 2817620c7fb37b7d0ba46e2376984d15a8eef406afc492d820ef5f0acc03e212
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=follower+tracker+pro+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbed0c48856---pujazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968d93b13f68feef14e33f7d33e3e79c/64010291366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7732006390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd8394b880---xazerobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b10558f971cd65c8fc3273bfa504a0f2/91527402121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecapsuledigian.it/file/tizaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda5308f767459969f9533d0f7bfb995/84590133967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/99679106174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e1d38d9c1---79507937134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cfcdb32e4f7a8a7d94bde788b9046f7/laramukarilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/731392j9fhspd429aht2i9n841/87902237697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/xiduvapededarugikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801aa867d91---zijuxanegiranapobojora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/kosoxavowazasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a205744df756b58dba630d8cfa3ac03/jalojufovifogogolobageg.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3BE 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 048fb1891f432488516cd811e7b04d68e7d39e548ca3495625137f8fb0c23ff4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF472 2960 bytes
SHA-256: 3a99bfcc8a6322cb1f5d9dd0c76c95525b0630114fc12c53a342d41e6b6e0e01
font_02_sfnt_off0000fee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE2 5152 bytes
SHA-256: e07c7b0e53df2b4f4d9656ed6b0c395fc4e2b71ddf8c85c6198ed4619dd51fc0
font_03_sfnt_off00011069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11069 12144 bytes
SHA-256: 46d26898f6d54f9b0b8da0f9510b6bea76344c7ac102fa4711e4ed88df35821e