Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d2597270c4c6973…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 05:44:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4c0544ceffa239a5ceb797cbae911ad4 SHA-1: 0b025a8852ae487441b346fe2f475123af677a03 SHA-256: 2d2597270c4c69736f4be1f48df4f35d8caccd40809a08fc1c7892effb1f158b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host or redirect to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for these links, suggesting an effort to evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oi0ij9pafjeueiv1ou9p9u2iu5/gususibikenexeladimeveju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pidthf3no2ln4vabrecsjk7fs6/jixivojakaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c6848fd77feb9118c6e10e9e8e2256/navubenujexosoziserus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333d014efc1a924d95d54af417883f27/sefijoganaguxewesugele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/86502186175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/51217482368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meechoktoolmart.com/user_img/files/dopokawedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210523175336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci7gut82l338dpuhskmnbperch/26030138267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9h723gf5qs20995rm85ia54u4/lejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/jokerefaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/vejatufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebaa5ef9d44f1bcdb9ab7afd33d7ff90/falidokofumobejexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/muxetisikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/13854954965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04aa2b97114ee3a366d9d1d478649bf3/lujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608726ec8431e---gamipulifimiditiworino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th78d661tp8fl1j2mivtfb1otb/97506005657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q50dtecjprmt267ujql70mp1ja/38913380588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc60587077ad9630687e64aa3040f3af/24225864106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a324bfa5561d66a4e25109970b273c/rufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607e919c11bd9---16595054531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/doxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e80cd294e6ccf17c8db87ef092664b/xogorurozunavole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b880031b00e---xufetukixadedabekabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=project+expense+report+templatePDF 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_off00011be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000133f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133F8 17032 bytes
SHA-256: c33a49c54048f3983c944d8347eebc97779db6d6f039467942c99866e4538b00
font_02_sfnt_off000160a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160A6 10676 bytes
SHA-256: ddef02885a766b23e74b361d107e32386550fa206e8a726cfbbe037c634db478