Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d0976e35820e208…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 19:35:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: aa4fa7d35e0fcda4994c8dbfc85a6e1f SHA-1: 4b459302ea14b25c03224cb2299aa91b0a8b736c SHA-256: 2d0976e35820e208dfa3572bba0e6c8ff13503f7efe809bf2d85078136fda701
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or link farm attack. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing campaign designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electrostatic+physics+problems+and+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rttn89u6bh610rn5371shso82o/11856405519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa5a18ed1a---40752571591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/rilapakugavuneduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed68ce3aacd462583095ca265d8cd493/56099412897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a321c3d93ca---terududidimageluxipinapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/902ed172ad3453b73962dab054fbd8bf/33416179489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ucvlm74th7dsf2dotk6e1pv7/davajivarafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7ca17b5b2---56623728198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnlh7j512c0j722gqvj083h3l7/daxuzikesepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/sinejuxazibidolitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aba5902ba88dea68e7e4f07fd2b380e/dabasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960e1f60d1cf42f51c10daf3a69607e6/6796257120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93152752331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/peg0k3hveq7t9eq6rhae2456jj/tiwopidobidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081347264308---80414591847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106141518.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_off00012002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12002 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 57cf158a01035a89172bc6291153bb40822114a3280e70413027f946c42977c1
font_01_sfnt_off000132e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E1 13348 bytes
SHA-256: 05134004a79d3fee67050b7229c8e552691379610d63bfea5f87c59a65b60662
font_02_sfnt_off000160b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160B6 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 852b21473822c4408486056892174324ba281dab12dd7445025b765c97da0840