Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ae2c9d29d706b0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 15:20:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4152ba9dfd18fedbb58097899ba5e0ad SHA-1: c0a50b63eef79db68d93db58d50ac0b9501476bb SHA-256: 2ae2c9d29d706b0a8fd5996a1bfd0f5b17218b26507eb76d777595fe88deaba7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely intent to redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43b0f72aa028f1e5c6660265945f140f/likesezujanofumeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/lidozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/70027849700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikico.net/img-tym/files/kixovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingclubalbinia.eu/userfiles/files/79426427303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcbmfrt45upt92hu05ql2ak9a0/2607668296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9798e23fa---25650745799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/gavasefamuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f42664cd1e---wizubikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/tunubevaguwexexedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/50221789961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f70f2e48b0---95338063143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1527d8d34e---zudirizemepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43774f217988c531b23c1f470d1b8ff2/3878371433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/43633454747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/16898965332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ccdc823b1---vazozagafomobakuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d20f5239008986f1fa5a9d336d1e0e/58820073569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8be343fc06---5852951156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76891a8259---sumorafiwelanufigedasazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa95f400340---85054018414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1cde98526a---lirurekirukuzodosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/74641626901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/zutuvixegalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=misdiagnosis+of+alzheimer%27s+diseasePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d4c741cbed64ca3fdf59ae6265671c3/xaxigela.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_off0000faaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C1 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 7fb61c13e26826d6b615e683b31a7e7b5d3fedb8dbdc567ff437726d21320278
font_02_sfnt_off00012b32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B32 17356 bytes
SHA-256: a00fca05caa649ebd9cad857598547e4d8e75be13d2ebb0f32af770c7d86d2bb