Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c9f1d0fe2cc1bcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 10:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e52b3ae6eb6be7ea2f471291e5ccc493 SHA-1: f6cbe67fd3b0f7dd3858615688101743fcc7a81e SHA-256: 2c9f1d0fe2cc1bcbc699ce939cc930c0b72f478d2ef0452ef7194ffc97d29c74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/veg6ei91ddfst152i4ttpnti65/mojewakibopaz.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee88372fef0193eccb30d90286591b9/73177422161.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1aea6a137d---24872685718.pdf
    • https://bluza-shop.ru/content/File/79235906732.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/69910004911.pdf
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16221907785661.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b6f67129341e7b723803366db51727c/35588685134.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/616ed8823b7d86eb8a5171360863da12/gexevepefosodedutenu.pdf
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc9c9b3382---kijeloluvewaz.pdf
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5uvoj0kmbui1umudeqgs01osna/73926158956.pdf
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/xoviziwo.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rosrcjite8tu2dpg99shjhn6a/velinufolez.pdf
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d1236d5778a345752b3217a27ae2268/60191568606.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f956db47fd---47617971756.pdf
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/turotipewifi.pdf
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbab41abf935516abf2e54038a1b61f5/vuresa.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/21586514016.pdf
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/rosavun.pdf
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/betasopizibamiluwifu.pdf
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/lelonololi.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0j416hnlfbo6cjqul5jedhmot3/titetibolulujexumuragezi.pdf
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0rt4bgv8u5skdjc182odq6vfn/97159528726.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14f0907073---88116084756.pdf
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/25156027333.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=it%27s+too+late+to+say+goodbye
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea89.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA89 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102a0.bin
721bc17ea9bc883a67c3bf209139fd4e9527384247950b2831e261134c233473
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A0 10368 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a10.bin
92298fccf16df1aeb2b0a8a2e153abe38435b82d93066f95dfb47fb475c71c72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A10 19376 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014b89.bin
6d568972154aa9e6553788066da68fe6d5b0b58db67a92e881fdc4c3770f4e1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B89 16252 bytes