Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2837fd125ddfad0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:47:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cb1aee608e4428c41eb1c6e69e7401b2 SHA-1: e04a4d783752991b807c1287c6ba348e7b00a039 SHA-256: 2837fd125ddfad0b3c411d5ce9751f4712416cba0e2342517b1e9c3b521d75ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or phishing. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly show the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbe1071146abf11c496b89087d8335b/76999235655.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608168e5279ae---9311495117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108041624579523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81a1d56c62---78247711568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfreklam.com/calisma2/files/uploads/53924616103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///202106240547_441875963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/masomuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/31674353874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/944eecb7bff2991aba9b71ae448023f7/zerimisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/biruwovigejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073580612deb---48824631210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/83715468308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cv-vezouze.fr/media/file/29364397999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8f352f011---25083240169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d988939def336e3494b405addf423a6/vewozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021082900280944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/tevemosulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1u4mh36p2i102bd4h7coip3isi/tutazevixewajuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platcometals.com/images/file/nujizotafizibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/6127763100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/xexomilokisatuvamuxuwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca41aabcda---vobibewipusilurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosotuforafijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=brief+history+of+mathematics+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_off0000d78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9C 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 5dc61b2d6fc90606b0306f978379e7529122791e308882ef7f6c9fcb1a80e44c
font_02_sfnt_off00011d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D86 10900 bytes
SHA-256: ce22395688a5b7e633465215736d3f33d112e9aebdcb75de24e73950651e7eaa