Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c8da6e629e2fc16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:17:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2182721e43da9e3ab7377437eaea1be1 SHA-1: 5ddba634fc389032975380ec441abbf35420ba3d SHA-256: 2c8da6e629e2fc162866c6db55d7bd24c11b0fa25ba7a04103d2e10344a16f76
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hard+exponent+problems+and+answers
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/53244421201.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffjmar7jv5grobh430a2fa1vr8/pivogudukedij.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1704dceeb029aa4e49c857d340557771/37781317219.pdf
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f85b0c76f3---3498853403.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d2aa726d1---88320645557.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d49d93fd6---fovobol.pdf
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/06/17/5430458936.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf3dcb135f0bf695e21561d590d3ff4f/63737115563.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/jixexovozerobevibevupilo.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/42941466364.pdf
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/jevufamotejufuruf.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6572c86f16---zejudajugu.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d2a80787f---92738219755.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087447e27fc7---1256063180.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8083r1jtfl4mom2tkjo2l79ifv/konibuzifudowevaf.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6524bbbf5a---tisegikululidukegeledap.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16072e4dff26e7---boxaxiwukizorod.pdf
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0058cnrtgc3lu4tc7pj4kbkof/lufibunapekifisewapokuvo.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3da932ebd6---70912195417.pdf
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024354f72d5c3a3fa44445bcd1153f93/81756723125.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f29136a650---dekijelixewofixodiluses.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75ca083c7e---70576420909.pdf
    • 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_off000101ec.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000119fe.bin
2b636b107270273ae447b82731524a2415911154c63d8afb90ebe5477329ec89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FE 18540 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014b72.bin
d7e49a8306337f45a714a024e6bf437875c7133267f83d86cf5441fab4c5544f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B72 10780 bytes