Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a2cf68994547ae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:03:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1ff0a22fb962156b1f3c8025356e8089 SHA-1: db4bc38486aa9e7d707d3f45975a9c3b725ae6f9 SHA-256: 2a2cf68994547ae707ece76aa08ffd23af0ac490490ce07d2523fca052735b51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a redirector to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting suggests an effort to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=signs+of+golden+staph PDF link annotation
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df831587c01a80894d849f6cd639bec3/2371911959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd6c4a65bf---53590440795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/61892564014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/53480092080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrahpnhgit6ehr0804i9p51eaq/xofajevetiwoxademezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad71894ed---lowogunubitukinekagasazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oh368u0fdhep55n5t0b2ipv46r/74638574119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/rusajuzezodaguwidokesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a02c05a7da---giroroguligavarisale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/juzaxegekozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e4d1af879---52163354145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1eb0bc353---47022808062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a833499f0---29108711511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///netebilufisuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c381ca16c---24003426847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092769f2018b---19673546254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0cac4d9f5---70905730691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/bikebubunaveduvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090528693794---3960850606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b070345e0c---37040542902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c84ec299f---88641372587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6b9691e56---13051609822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae452eeeb0---pulito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9c5d44710---nomidunanoxefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847c9c8a2d6---93039232669.pdfIn 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
    • 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_off00010210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10210 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 15a7343c153ce281b2b73357619a41c9b30f49bb379bc6dbf2c33443dbf3957b
font_01_sfnt_off00012ef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF9 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 3f51781c23bc17f8871d4dbd9e75938db149684b9ef5961804abf91008909445
font_02_sfnt_off00014763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14763 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1