Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a571adc4421385f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 07:00:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 0c88229da87a778625c409abddc7c5f9 SHA-1: 73a24159468223413abf6bd78736407ca5d20b07 SHA-256: 2a571adc4421385f8c4fbfa2634cfeae548909a18c2d6cb56602ad639f06754f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f19ee862eaa6b3c9dc80ef2a19f2bc06/jufisoratijaxujikelo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/62921176454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck1g2in787mq9kpsd7tt9el3ml/tofezadabama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3699568165---rukarelivoretowurapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/93660130187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/dodusiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22e93f2153cc3f2a531548f2c276f81/sefumepedibokimanofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride.hu/images/uploads/files/5741108483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7884418cd2ed221a07d86e7456a5c8b6/88591038674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc13dae266---67174716136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekonoxovosanatojisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/faporad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66b4575b7a635fcf74164edb782e45cb/kajozifejabadiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4mfu21l20qq7b48oquchaja20/86034332340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/82459035688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43b00a115d26f031f9561672aba77aa8/66881457451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/47790553328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beda1638854---rejuxutuxegopisata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/toligap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0a659d3a2---zijorokifogidapipugew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53103968c309f6013c967fd45a21e493/28520059475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=your+lipstick+stain+is+a+work+of+artPDF link annotation
    • http://po.st/2e9wjyEPIn PDF document text
    • http://po.st/2NT1JEIn 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_off0000df1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1A 10600 bytes
SHA-256: eab0780c1a76ffeacf1d4ea8b6d411c8339b5996e7b472af529d4ccef1a6cc7e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f77f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77F 17040 bytes
SHA-256: f61c04a985ecedf3c12536ce34e64a27ebc3ec41223cd6ad1445840f620d11ba
font_02_sfnt_off000123ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1