Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c34d8050156a308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:31:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 480f60de7fd8220b34239911f9b39901 SHA-1: a15873830551c4ecebf22aeb8d0f07a0d8508b29 SHA-256: 2c34d8050156a3084900e47daf7815283efc8f304c52c93506f74768b076d673
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing phishing lures or malware. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ufmdp0mg6rgs8nac31vfuj455/rumoxoriva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7gpga5bths315r3ao0vb5gav0/19760329024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ngtrmud61l5el1jgrhmt405a4/18804023682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520b75bd6ae52cfeab1cd8920ecb9476/43701588693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caac90a590---57361512296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/980c064032c87c3d0ba5fc70148cc659/1546879354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/51842246269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/zelado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/neguxivedumibisaporivakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ab59aee41---nexulinugomofifuwirudole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/30754096824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/806e3d46aa8d2e098cd072fcb797035b/5275565338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608162c66e2dd---mudovutupubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/xaxufavaxesegoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/fipofowagili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918f7251be5cbd978693a6ed1b280b78/51443918079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c1d4eeeb0bbb962dfb36b95284e01c8/35259816955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/70646788911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a139ecf16d2---52763129852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade54783b44---detojufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/kivaduxopevunoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/30776710274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2t2voo5u214icbqj3sdms9got0/64453123252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/ronuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=animal+in+you+quizPDF 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_off0000eed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED8 10172 bytes
SHA-256: a3db1c2882d25148ef5dd158930034b6d0d7710e605e9b299b4dc78b2124c077
font_01_sfnt_off0001058f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058F 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 7ccd4029912a62ae329fbf924931c41ab4fbfdae795d76279d213ad4b17d6fa2
font_02_sfnt_off000131cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1