Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c573f250cb267b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:59:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e5ac6d70fada7fd01393e971150e70ec SHA-1: 29b7ab04fb5efef223e2f9df0e661c9a2068277c SHA-256: 2c573f250cb267b0ead186417537edb9d324b571f5a4bf56b629820c5c021137
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious content, likely a phishing attempt or a lure to download further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the nature of the URLs suggest a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination.

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://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22633a67d5---45956783579.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6b3ba234303815f0edea8c716e0b11/bipofe.pdf
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/50750730206.pdf
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37508347892.pdf
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085042150096---mawexanapine.pdf
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f165cc8291---resefofaweribatipuj.pdf
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608356d88f0e8---49065491338.pdf
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/34490840719.pdf
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62641239295.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a650bd428675f309df4316872f7087/56404714174.pdf
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26516935981.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ld3vnsisdnharcognvfa5l0h/3318604203.pdf
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/86217851984.pdf
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/4488739156.pdf
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/89470071823.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ead74a202f41c02bb77d46eb24a2c39f/jomiluruxunefusivefe.pdf
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n90d5j3an7ui9cov5v1thk17de/15302727015.pdf
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/85822924802.pdf
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/toxekugorapatirewoxaf.pdf
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/manatep.pdf
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3e315u4gutkcjoi1gkoijjh0g/melarowenewiwo.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b7b7653a6---zidolobaguzegatizava.pdf
    • https://deepankarbasu.com/FCKeditor/file/49064574440.pdf
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h510quvfn775b5n0uo5g91qfhg/85627885459.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ganglion+of+joint
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd47.bin
76f021a60f09d6b4f460671e8d67af564dd44b1411b9d8047654c1be18fda9eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD47 10160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011417.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11417 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c29.bin
62377835c08b6ba41ce5293951dc911930639ab20a56c624f63ab1e72a4f409d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C29 17048 bytes