Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d119bc603585952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

126.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 09:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 81fa31d0292d77d797f91b00dbaafb0e SHA-1: 4178e4b82cdad05c83c0e5d888919c77a318f4ca SHA-256: 2d119bc6035859529803f578c805ed6e04e550c41f49db220298a6e6223f4dd8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content, such as a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb146227e7---34868140604.pdf
    • http://boeschfamilytravels.com/clients/43210/File/35486099661.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/12103321625.pdf
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/11712062482.pdf
    • http://indigobaby.eu/upload/files/fagonajigiv.pdf
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/ropaludukokepufepal.pdf
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/275a7b5b69007076d8f609d24eb2696f/18983207337.pdf
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/67477060237.pdf
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/5945471759.pdf
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/mogitufise.pdf
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/1231553877.pdf
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/wisosogifidebevi.pdf
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0fl8ajvi13fl2l66g9kd4ffot/13252403054.pdf
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14841304032.pdf
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/tufakoma.pdf
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zogirugasitep.pdf
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/25633109057.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a66c470b8.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f53c53140---49670617804.pdf
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/21001182882.pdf
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a73a1e8b4---95749314296.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e42ba59v7h25m3ibg90kpj84r8/3410596531.pdf
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078dfca0d896---79007273844.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ihm+research+project+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_off00018c62.bin
284d9adeb680847fc68ea0085699536394a5a8b3b47f7fa846d491178c9c0962
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C62 18300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001bb56.bin
8020d71545abe81f993a664bd19dc20ed9554206b351a36db50df0e6073b048e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BB56 10724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001d3fc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D3FC 16792 bytes