Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ca0113ea801b0ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:20:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fd453daebdce9bf7f7b55fbd6303b539 SHA-1: f2fb74b04e11d5efd35188911ccb700ff2db0143 SHA-256: 2ca0113ea801b0ba2b087d38d721562aa9dcc5c9e5916e39c8afcaa31fb8340b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate it points to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs are likely part of a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign.

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 http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-11/20210611051531816274.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/rirukapujedoxevinalofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vnsohbj00jab59u3odbua2kk9/dexelidogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a0795271f---60956745656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076020ebd3e2---dikimiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/gepovemubafutake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ca293cc06---97912001172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b07e26f7f3521ba5355757925270b505/badugenedevilawomejuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb05db21fa8fcb627f0de96b0ca2351/ritibux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monaxuzevadaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/nipotulupimevetolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab2f58069f---fizuburog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0332239de---xipifejofepowifijereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/2681835503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/3909505412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb89670017a---pidizasepamisomofupupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae112b42d027bd68a6a8e0e26930eb9/39828513735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26d7f06748---nukukefikitapusomexidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da38161829ff85f03eab1072308fd00a/bulakasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf4dd172f6---fepujaworav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c19008e46---viwixikubarigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/figowovozajedido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeton1959.com/clients/863834/File/bumorevuwuzelidogagarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098eb7394bfe---79541980716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d97l1gemlfq4oghmv359idk9c3/nugasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=firewood+sales+in+my+areaPDF 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_off0000e79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79A 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 112d6a3b55670a7e7b8a26ee00a43127ef252b6407a1e9d84a458c25ab638880
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6D 17180 bytes
SHA-256: e3531136cb4f9ead87a3b9a1ebdf61fd1f6d3b391a66026a7330a36b69df0d04
font_02_sfnt_off00012c1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1