Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cd01aeba861f03c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:33:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 58d077dba56d2d8004b478e689277ce2 SHA-1: 6c8d033b927f6a2c32f9d7ac9d2e2ea7ea40c56d SHA-256: 2cd01aeba861f03c41219d12de09b6cb83c4dff5df7bf25b718f21aa4f853e30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/13532312535.pdf
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02da4246ca---7271272446.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f26145ce51---susimamuzijomilozenomexe.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa1f7925d4---derenolufetitaxilimedibi.pdf
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78955554129.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbd6318e65---zibirezubap.pdf
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/23304916016.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dbe26e1d7---nisezomeworupeborinujefu.pdf
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/lubiradalanadajin.pdf
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/13908219903.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e383f0481fb---ximojizebiwanolatelonafex.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825188c557c---75126078488.pdf
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85e673f9043f8f638c8b202530d92204/zefik.pdf
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc693a3a80b56dc821df508fd3b5b4d8/fatad.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3ae276761---semopurakonupa.pdf
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///18132967034.pdf
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/19770493241.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40c780c1af---33703595591.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608485e20d578---sezebigarojubip.pdf
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/98192968286.pdf
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8d92ff7f7ec96eb5b8791cf21bd3dd2/69581382319.pdf
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a522895d80---xusepebijewobat.pdf
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/62364915425.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f0d69d54c---26614517600.pdf
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31425664506.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=abcd+is+a+square+of+side+14+cm+semi+circles+are+drawn+with+each+side+of+square+as+diameter+find+the+area+of+shaded+region
    • 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_off0000c0d2.bin
5cd8a120e106fc2d4fc1855603a636a3ce922decfb1b4d98f17a4a5450337c58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D2 16344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6c7.bin
91bdb0bb4646e419fa34e808400d4d8d1a11a129ac2e4ef080985ed742a8190c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C7 17244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103d9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D9 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011bf0.bin
2fe03f929e567674f01ced2004348a53af767a0d8f0485f5df70f79afa60c2f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF0 11508 bytes