Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2caa4a215bc0cff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

142.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 16:30:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8da4dcb103ade6204c19075cf4c63095 SHA-1: 9cf466241dcb6afc62c4d14fc81d1bed7c87a3b7 SHA-256: 2caa4a215bc0cff49d6599d05d64ba50408e35a66bb23e1cbaed859c2ff12b6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, but the heuristics strongly point towards a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/87275768751.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/jetiziperametu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai9k1l8uu0mpmvi5lp7mq1aca8/jetorisitujovajidateva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f671b8722fa9e8e7d35481e8058aa38d/19540377600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazukupatikelujidulibafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzweiss.at/34443908101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c8r8fp729a0vbhquceqv0j2ho/62392638254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210516164411_2106554630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/85670393251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ee2ed03871a5ebe3ee0d5ae0d71ee1/69863264098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/surikefolajodukikikusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mo78b06evkdgq0a7tok8vsnn8n/lamajidobenamonided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072209c0ff89---72807925342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59220e0c77---lonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb9bd3b67b98773a59c5b41b0105737/30070555841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdi4hc9pftmhna0rktjmv37f6j/sozifumune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/fasazesudujususez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/17396578430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/54694667231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f9389d982cb5f92fe32a87d8ca747b6/jaxabobovujixera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/bapojedetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b4841c8a0---pedoloxinonanawuvexokugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/73370057591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/67744844910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=teoria+del+color+de+isaac+newton+wikipediaPDF 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_off0001c26c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C26C 10648 bytes
SHA-256: b4610f04bffb31e38a7dbcf27b7e71659a6fcc1d75aaab4ea8a7d8da50601413
font_01_sfnt_off0001dafd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DAFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001f30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F30F 21672 bytes
SHA-256: 2441f682b285e4671c32cc2fd134ec8e0a64dcc384f18597da50d3c4e6275ba8