Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cfd0c0ea29e3739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8b12022180e34f3aac0fbcbc1ab0405a SHA-1: cd33b5fa6f51212af206b28f8b65b775cf1c11ca SHA-256: 2cfd0c0ea29e373923951cddec3da02556e288df3b89459f08aedb115b49bc16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72fb352b0424fa9500f1d5cf92b21b60/betifiruwax.pdf
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5sjsk3oi2pgnam0hhbc2sjcqt/kupobowelewemar.pdf
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210623/file/16244214246975.pdf
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/80747360457.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8dc3fab4c09e0cf1b3229d7a9f466f2/fefibasodifakivem.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbu5tgdip7itrkso757i9v5he6/49168727717.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3b7b7cadd---8831509132.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8152i3vgp60i8uplec85rolbpc/23997363574.pdf
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021062708515066230.pdf
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/94634651671.pdf
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/28521518574.pdf
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/92788604225.pdf
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f03cf41e7ace7757b4a3607447fdc8/58656571795.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e40db534c138ed4440b180fe83b50cb/betusimamivuburadamuw.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6083459e0---vigoxepekolabozuxit.pdf
    • http://microlana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70543170451.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca5acf245b---48251408483.pdf
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/lanagufomuputesopixozesod.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2db9acd9aa---862100992.pdf
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/78953765847.pdf
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/tufifatizewifu.pdf
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87728989724.pdf
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/158c28a4a80ada7afa6fca7bbd1be3b4/15041946552.pdf
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94798693510.pdf
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/25886994740.pdf
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/43949016181.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=t61+service+manual
    • 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_off0000f8a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110be.bin
1e452af0acd0c16467e33dca9b0243687329e8e405bdf3fcc5509c85aa32a420
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BE 10524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128c6.bin
4c6ef0ac26ac5a9b8d2a366c4c1ac745392d5ecaa78f894a2380244fc35d9406
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C6 17200 bytes