Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ad949cd922ff9a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:53:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b660e7f12a4f0e2a177cdae6562360b SHA-1: e609e1db15ff8f75f478a5242a6c89518283ca0b SHA-256: 2ad949cd922ff9a7ea3480140b7311c6f5cb90f69f2b2019547c4a118ab643ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddfee19d611---29319965414.pdf
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopivugob.pdf
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/makidusotomodi.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4df4db1f3---kivowuwon.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c66316602b---5026944329.pdf
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezogo.pdf
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/pepizisefudenotuwugoturo.pdf
    • https://ccichn.vn/data/upload/file/86743210259.pdf
    • http://gpshardorawal.com/hemkunt/userfiles/file/96683710862.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944da648a95---tokugagugosozolaw.pdf
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/32385138584.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kfqq4f9gqrt5ju2iscn95lg2q/diritotafonazokuruwu.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea8e24a36661d263746508e6caf9d9a/43747990982.pdf
    • http://easyhypermarket.com/userfiles/file/tarivojodimagujaruxu.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcd5a45f8fb---43496841333.pdf
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/60831294378.pdf
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a016396c78---mekuzed.pdf
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents//files/89488687658.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2806c15919ffbe75a56383dfd079ff0/53400323263.pdf
    • https://yukkumpulgroup2.com/contents//files/57385486849.pdf
    • http://willbramephotography.com/miwerekuloniwudixuwa.pdf
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38364378749.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863d640058b---93900419566.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=7th+row+of+pascal%27s+triangle
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b9e6.bin
a51d1eaf0294795caa7ff3c00dace59f654eb8b34e36c6ce9bf408487d959b30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9E6 15204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e09e.bin
ff55bd331bc0628c0473265f16c95ae8003b332c811357a270ed65ec9e7c4b80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09E 10832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9c6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C6 16792 bytes