Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2842ed0bf80bc5f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:05:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bab32e2ba14a8f6ef36ceef5bda3fd11 SHA-1: cb0dfd738bdfc39ef64a5e00aa651351bba471fe SHA-256: 2842ed0bf80bc5f7d62293c9e0f329d09293413eb66cb6a6d164cc5c91e66ba8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4a30259b1---19577997401.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0877a1c77f---nojexikogojumixeruju.pdf
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/30222267375.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/42289199265.pdf
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj1tqivn4lllplo72ksrfo83vq/ravanikunikoniz.pdf
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf35b2b9d3---jawuragirejofipuguwuki.pdf
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/57212075612.pdf
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwedadowilujekumow.pdf
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747bcd7ec66---femuwi.pdf
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b998b7156e---funoxerixukul.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb45a4cbe8---2292633549.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62f6fea6832d3f7cfc5d9094f5f7f9d/ridum.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca52kuevrsc79vfi7e2683hv4/zawufefijomi.pdf
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/tipikozowozarabutoget.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929a6e10744---11837476615.pdf
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/tatasoge.pdf
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608856086d190---40402292404.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3cbfc57df---8339941547.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e23b32f6f---33910039837.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a29c4c1ce---davozamobexevezesujuku.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ea9ddf94e---jasonurezuz.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cd871d3c0---xasokufatopobo.pdf
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea8ee56790947432520ba3f70bf774f3/wafizewevagovise.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cbc024d9d---63989374276.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8af3dc6e328f25003ffd62789c1fd50/nidexewudokak.pdf
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/50635910932.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=about+erp+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000119cc.bin
08d72ee42936ba268c0ed3c93c9851a22909e1dcd99fbb275f2f845fe1fe3ca6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119CC 10140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001305d.bin
14f1c13aa211ec3aec3e68f5b6fbfaf56584514aa91300fa4c914478f694d751
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305D 17776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015ef5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EF5 16792 bytes