Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c44c5a4a54cffdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-07-18 09:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2b74dfc613708e9692955cab8d7a57af SHA-1: 111240aa5cd9359ec49c0d257447152f3513de3d SHA-256: 2c44c5a4a54cffdcbcb59638a1c35ea8fb93e353afb319bd81f1ce3c6c2387c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically identifying the link farm behavior. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09f6e93884---virikaxop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/4510923203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/11768905489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/lovenusowiridefetoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2656651a39---limezevirorimizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb9c0b3b13---kipomelekiwagivowozotajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/zifiwuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b0f3341b61ba5d7db3fd942be2cfab/lunotavedaxexapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d11c6ae6bd12eb8c6462a7c8e0419e1e/52971669148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf42ab3f9fbaa48488cf3c9d0a3c16a/vapevedopozonaredixidajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb3db18bb8eb5d559dccc4018f16fc8/boruniwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2dd1a9684---91454916012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5d85e9f5a58fbb383a83353381e9a07/33375929048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/75752274861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/xuvaweref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4878690815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/rimutopabezesisigusagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/pupeketagenaredasepitazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/xoselarudoxiliposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/73475019020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f90e13bc0---pabimuzibojidekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8727918328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk4ia3ueo8os00b83h0k914df1/37097452760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/rikopovodiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/46483378663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=normal+endometrial+thicknessPDF 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_off0001204d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204D 10704 bytes
SHA-256: f32e68b1063f776ef74834a9640e75836b54b4de3ea8365f41f74a041adcb5f4
font_01_sfnt_off0001389c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1389C 17204 bytes
SHA-256: a870e0469d98c081dc9c3d67c6d7b49e6258495f9eba4d1f178f35bca453b9a1
font_02_sfnt_off000165a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1