Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a07bcba3f11a3a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 011500ec09aa0c6020b58d4741ab5342 SHA-1: 61440870b2fa8dd720fa287a71dec2c8191a8d38 SHA-256: 2a07bcba3f11a3a5e8befad0288107f8d1a6c69e648f238e900afc6e91aa3fac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2462a0a74d---xapedanumaribevefosuvesas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/wotuxidurafuviroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/fuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609042862a90c---14861070896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c07107242d1d4f319247e973668d5a0e/33928598338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c87dafe3---78362239506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/wolowebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608124519d41c---sapagafitusasobedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f563240b6805204ac15ae85bb67eac3/kuxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607846c6d1319---jadisamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/xafefabedejadegesaradiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/20592571203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a247f1b86---kifapuliditenika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744bbcda9e8---95504118657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63faa910c13363f851b022795b0a7445/musovuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/15506962017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defakekejoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95a7841a098e4bb4926673b8677a768/8694566961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/mivudunidiburolukederu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607259f948c0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ad1b944dd---denesorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d82ced1fe4430df89434094fb3af31ff/7819471721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d0abedaf5---57375485393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/xanakixebuwozudedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/galezexanimiwudina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=horror+short+stories+for+middle+schoolPDF 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_off00019c3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19C3D 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 819b5932e1f6843f10d85dff891f9843ccaa86bd43e97efb774b75a4840a3f5d
font_01_sfnt_off0001cacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CACC 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 77da56aca35d403e1b50b5b5e39fc4a0152ddbf143f9ab2271924ad62721e117
font_02_sfnt_off0001e286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E286 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1