Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cadf0129d508197…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 15:36:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 703997c1141b97204bec773548bd8b72 SHA-1: 40799602c567e882a97a65dc67e22da903835532 SHA-256: 2cadf0129d508197176e2c7f9b84686ada5cbf0883e48d0c2a826d128c5d8210
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+am+a+rider+lamborghini+mp3+song+download PDF link annotation
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/pomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0dca1b4ae949a8405f0d5ebbab0d122/jumomirexazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/dagomasetokaxasiginuzofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4e68ee91e---94773197048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7ed3b2cd6---vukekunonowesubigitosimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/73799511171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c47bb4mtscght116ufdif58cem/68281416843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8393b2b89e---68357766322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7prvq6mniieg4oh5491ios6gb5/7295648976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/degisetuvavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/vifenuleseliwojezonekekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60829a97aca2c42d2f6080f1930237ac/pumufawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cdaad0d6c---48620963771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpoolandsauna.com/user_img/files/zisovedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/nazakowugewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/58294710525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/61334888195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/73439200370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608103f89dd4c---13434862594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/59102659284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lemfhafamilylove.com/clients/a/ae/ae548a02e38cf20d1222216853584fb4/File/lojuvoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/vakegajebaboxowave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/76399955537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/balipituridevaparobikemig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d25385141---fokuxisigukojulemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e3dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF3 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 4a15e228610f99617ff0a705dfc3b9f65d5b01ef2008bfdb77f262b4134ec13d
font_02_sfnt_off0001151f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1151F 16720 bytes
SHA-256: 4eeb6961d0fc62393cf6de6c0369311efb8bdaf643a6af36130efa50f1bebac2