Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cfd387607785d02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-08-23 16:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f8933db8b188341f1243f4e27b9b6671 SHA-1: db3d911522095a39333b0a852a27a9b01a1b3ef8 SHA-256: 2cfd387607785d028b72449e832ec001f9c7e664245726bebb8c175a6e1473ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing and download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/5519100697.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b17399a08232b1fff0898d62ccfa14b7/wofevabetiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076592a9abe8---39881846427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/78569189675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/56156489935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/suwexonewuxivixekixoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ck4l0sa7hm86pbre60u7dl4mt/fazomosidujogagusupebapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6066734016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074adbb3cf49---68179554452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/87473287861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gveek2mb9tlvprpc0dr6uerg0/70548983632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vr0038vfdf8dhm9t380bkha9u3/sepodenuforobadafaruzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/ruzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021052704522070554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/53060289387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/72974982210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080614aefa85---68197399376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/47926880253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/witejojeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/85606634590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff0f8ea769---9675235548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210527222813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtravel.clickis.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210818_E63DAD9981DEC85A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debseven.net/UserFiles/File/63073900021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=angular+types+of+formsPDF 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_off0000c5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D4 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 33d56227105d5449b0bfbc3bc1d2f00427c32a8bdfb6f9adc914ceb37caa4450
font_01_sfnt_off0000f17d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17D 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 5950433214029746c811ea89cb1d78886ed7df2cc91a381758d30f46325059fc
font_02_sfnt_off00010a85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1