Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af0cdcaeebc1a21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b683b31885dd4383a1d395422b1c9aad SHA-1: e72c555dff36f23a0794eb271f90175f537bc133 SHA-256: 2af0cdcaeebc1a21da16b156485132ea13914d392351ad94684a2dc96d9c89b4
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, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=geringf%C3%BCgige+besch%C3%A4ftigung+arbeitsvertrag+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gunezipimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161247b3d93c88---32121705467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c470869172---38717470058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125ee595b97d---85908447882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/77183694633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/951eb1feb4afac50d9bf12f7615809a5/rilopevebarawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee712eabf8e2a7553b506f8d460a6200/27778126627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senesi-sklad.cz/userfiles/file/bodekopepobovotaxijavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ad1c63a9ce---65252894950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837b8ce5565---fizowumakilasozagole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/19613260435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54594806435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/reramowipumazigasemijuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gndpta.eu/news_objects/files/jatatodasesunaxenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b23b6dd49---figokupijuzanarojiwugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/29178394125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/72841415405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085529518353---tasalerurafagub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/venowarufaxazid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapmaymn.samdigroup.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/rifodogaviniperupebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49328266366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyfinz.com/userfiles/files/tezadesirabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hki0cph6orpf8p0291b5av58uc/49534390025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c631c282a---19800105697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/74612668922.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_off0000e478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE478 19876 bytes
SHA-256: d40f911345582511b8b40c1a3056e8fa6389c6e5b1a2a08362d1230eeba112ba
font_01_sfnt_off00011646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11646 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E5D 11524 bytes
SHA-256: 59c71a5f59e60114b8c8e4feb1c2ed830b76a290389bf50ada6f3b2db93246e9