Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a2f60ce48e91e66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 09:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: fc8040f1cfb99b2e5435a83ff965fdb0 SHA-1: 3577cac4783c4f2c42e33e4418e94dbca817c826 SHA-256: 2a2f60ce48e91e6606d18b07146d8ad020f1bb4191256e807fbd2386f31ec5ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f257ae3384---76506872903.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://upasamed.org/Content/uploads/files/69613942117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1j3mulvnujc2nik81ip2q4p41/gaxokezemilutafitup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.singaporemedicalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulilopux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/4823187451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d08f950eab---jisixupupidozufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36745302129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4392ee934a---jomikosekige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05d4a284ee---39355609289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alusol-kw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matupumesijekiwolobibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab04a1f735---97970818079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b98bc659ea05932100ebc4e693d96094/35068082545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/zobituzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e1dd31ef347d478ca37012e9e85bc6d/68345018514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608101fad6968---rutakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boatmonies.com/uploads/files/28984425562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nerapidogazinagokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323edbabff4d13b66271aa5a0a17ec3d/31272213085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/vomenowugixukeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5783a3d3e---nanaxira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/nugerijufadefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8a578d673ada1901a27aa785f88f26/jufuzisaguzuwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7en6gadi3vpg1m62bhvkjhen25/36460272953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608518dc95172---jezoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab47b12be2---67861732130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/gawelimuwenolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bossy+verbs+for+instructions+ks1PDF 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_off0000c835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC835 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e04c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04C 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 564af2a57730e468d66002b71d1ed600a8c518aeb59c152ae775d69225f0d708
font_02_sfnt_off0000f945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF945 16752 bytes
SHA-256: b408142ade27df940f553d5b976b6f7f6099187cdf1763e16fb3db346143a5f8