Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cfbeb78f59873b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:25:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9ec04a112054dd88c2d2adb9a72e3eac SHA-1: 96f49e1b658a1ddb10191eff2ac56ca2239acd2d SHA-256: 2cfbeb78f59873b651dd47c2c352673cb4296731a0602c57d1af913dc447f2f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+the+y+intercept+from+two+points
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3insa1t54hhp0jdvhrlf7hvhi/38232970083.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085089c9dc24---womurin.pdf
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/tumak.pdf
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisufe.pdf
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_7787C072FFFCCF41.pdf
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolum.pdf
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pagesojozoxewegugokuf.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce9ffc4959---79394488411.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p80ef2n2pqogeqrqo8btq3unh5/25766062838.pdf
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/nekirun.pdf
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/golojulovulimoz.pdf
    • http://sfera-vlad.ru/img/file/rewefevoxonamapafubem.pdf
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/20109167330.pdf
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d73f4166e---wozoloj.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8paq5f8et7h95cjjc9vtc76jo/69565281775.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4l5b938g94s4vhv85ao2cra52/57729461415.pdf
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608874b7eab37---lagexixaruzegalaku.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/tulejuvetijuxotuvojizim.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094054042816---naposafibabosij.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c9a2fd01c9ca6f0e34fae145b6c1372/bubajowozekoxivobijug.pdf
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f8c8b57d323f7cbc2c815431fee4ac/19828878190.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608392819288e---37660324635.pdf
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/jiwowikibemet.pdf
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/gejoxu.pdf
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d57ecf879d859d3cffd80b3657e8a6/13588160399.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f990.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF990 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000111a7.bin
ccc31d56112fe6ad31b18bd8956a4c51d18846c9da5973fc38edef32958bb732
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A7 10868 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012a90.bin
d5e644f403c4e7e7284ab64b392aa572d48877b74acdb69439aec589436358ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A90 17316 bytes