Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2964420970756ca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 17:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 11c487c65badc8c6ced3119e2e8dbf5c SHA-1: 96506cc374c0edaec2c4daedcab197770bf8f046 SHA-256: 2964420970756ca8ce15c2c2bd539263927f1b81ff7a24afc79bb388927bfce4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs. Several of these URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c7b6a6e53---kinurulawenejutavulozewil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/46989886926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/72099934549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb56e3b6c54---xivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cffe625ecb---38864057741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd4a717e8f---12524437486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marigabung.com/contents//files/58435107812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/53086960942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/dokakidalenekowumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/ketizarumubufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4609cd1f9---ledisetemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whscardinals1963.com/clients/9/9e/9e5fab02d16e7113a74bdd4e7828f974/File/52040118634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2klr7tgud5fm31rgh8jlq687jh/nagifegofobitaziwefewuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/6080825203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5359133c210d414e38d90e5972bd273a/14590892508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/9556729116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/470227322f87fb313ccb67886d2d5ec8/mumelijenusedobipilowele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/78114291504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulu5v28e6hp7e7p9d54s22jm33/kadafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c37c402a4---pevisokuvogozovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a94e8173a---42322332840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f832dcd517a96db1d114aa64e75ebe8/7534798327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a49a95b36---pilububuwizifabatowarokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+does+a+bale+of+straw+weight+ukPDF 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_off00015a4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A4C 17980 bytes
SHA-256: fac75e7d7df786b78612c9d669ec5eccf8d78a899d841017b6d41d521abeeb80
font_01_sfnt_off000189c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189C5 11228 bytes
SHA-256: ba36aa64ed8a5c5da56c8cba78c83b561723a91532c4c6b3d134ea0074d241fa
font_02_sfnt_off0001a3ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1