Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cea02d2b5b95128…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-05-24 11:26:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c5a3c87157534274d3032a7cb5a2fb55 SHA-1: 9cc80430d07c276e17483e9642435d66439a8939 SHA-256: 2cea02d2b5b9512846e5aceceafc53b4c979d66be402acda74249c510db12eed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a theme of watching a video, which is a common social engineering tactic to entice users to click on malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kaplumba%25C4%259Falar+da+u%25C3%25A7ar+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+dublaj+izle PDF link annotation
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1320b7d49---zewefefutoxupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e427a7a9f---22380954552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/69870125873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2n501rum9k1civluitqosgcmb6/zekolixevozogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeuiarveq197c6n9di4pq889a5/magujuxovewutovunenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m20omm19cuc6guv9ilb83oe2us/wozotakejozosusifomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607740ef4afcb---zezibaganexoduwusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210510093428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718c3217ba9---debamajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d95b273ffa---86363703593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210521231517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49faelpdb1qvkcijfc8j9p0ak7/60808390041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea56ad146f18edf7202c1a4733acce55/18909087344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805f0add75b---vubazetoluvodanijola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4clvaafgnis2eppse7eth0084/14387426949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000c359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC359 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 010a90919600e62be560b747bad62a5a6a4b97ba32bb4765f7661df0a8b67d48
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B3 11660 bytes
SHA-256: 154996a9386b1870a8bebd63887cca6f03137096ac44ff8055e2a388ddf8e554
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB78 16520 bytes
SHA-256: 0311785f333fd24f602690428e2caf1569d75fdb2e6a00405e3ae58fd032f6d4