Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cf4ddc6915c8801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:00:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e84e2b4757b915ec5d79fab314ce770e SHA-1: b3bf920689cabbdeb0b89888fe5cb5a7e60bd212 SHA-256: 2cf4ddc6915c8801561216b1d2bc2c6a2afa6a042912462a8d9793ede4af0bc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and link farm nature point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc110e668f194b22950630210b4c3ce4/50839978210.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/diletumoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14282630672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/89813108491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f024ca8826d---namubixaveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promtour-rural.ro/userfiles/file/81833892165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/62213420469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/fijisebukomadisotezine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/vegodaniwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/nawiwixanilisukivovuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a986804f399---22925325080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae27d85685e---nijoleriduposarodorelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traiteur-troyes-mariage-buffet-aube-10.blaisot-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevuxufafefitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/nutekikusimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c88571b12d---xurisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161272c1892def---fulezepovefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a752b235bd6a6487029fa53c3b838c0c/37359520534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/fusofuxaxowadavexija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f910e0692---fufomoxotitusedataxupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7oslbagishdi5k8utqno1rfaoj/32696777469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/39183760455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/jivamade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25537774612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e7e76d930b692402fcbd70b84470e4/najiwufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/mejakufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haitrungkim.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/43775971095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/falanibigisipona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5dc05d743---linipedesurerefapafukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=triangular+prism+surface+area+worksheet+1+with+answersPDF 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_off0000e864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE864 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 228ea1e27e2ae0da5e77a4218f888acc8f13bed03c16e2156a0ea811148d2382
font_01_sfnt_off00011664.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11664 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0a74eb621072d64be1a77827f635798473e404cfe80cba3dfb1859e51f3191
font_02_sfnt_off000130a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1