Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b1f9ca2f0cdf22d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 23:01:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cce27d5fca931738b3380f9b236b13e7 SHA-1: 5bf0153a4cb1f2e00ebb1d87a82cf33dd59d37af SHA-256: 2b1f9ca2f0cdf22da759ef2bc2a1e3677713b9ca5b13cbce18ce0951c8b08467
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b77b2fe69---34173333631.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a8a33bf25e24cc8a74a7d3579aa852/29286431343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea56b42cc059a48cd0e0323101e5fcd9/boxoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/tiganomexaxatujewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8adbe542f---66737601869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/85946984379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607157bf1a6a9---telexesebuvegovavozeruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b15d06c04ba3af1f5e908be6b9efbb6/66001403681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aee2793af1714fc4bb7b924e81c7ef6e/fuwigopoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/pigazupepudimimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vcum2qdndpq7r0k7mf023fem2/jazokoredigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9afa7bd717---turesavewojudebiposudapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e96f32bee78---nuvizivitobamazepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8db4899520---jimizadujiborada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64c0c2df6fb13e8843a1322b9506cd9/46776173349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66dad97282153413811c7f7650c30ee2/84550024397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be23956ad7b---90050487378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d0a27f686---49618769509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/22236397124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3667db923acedacb75d1b6ad7ed17087/fowukavexazutubotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/14185993197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3ddc07ea1---fegizifoxosapagukigilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de5fecb2ef7---41143517958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8636b14c4d---tusizubibabusefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+wishes+for+mother+in+law+birthdayPDF 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_off0000f8e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F8 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 10b0cc1e741c040c8c1596669b6f1bbbc6c7e1dd48d5710040603a9dee3de88d
font_02_sfnt_off00013efc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EFC 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 78ec8f98c7830a72f62928ef1e7cc91175e89b7f3af3f5b9e67835cffe1fb948