Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d292f3a7ca8ca02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 18:42:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c8f23efe711765b6f5c757315b5a4fdb SHA-1: ab3517298e7f55714f7e3bc36ea5b95856ffe6b0 SHA-256: 2d292f3a7ca8ca0202bf0920a09957d536b78ee6f5a490bf8d859fd932e0973b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775a6acb8ba---temaguwikolexulo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ad2bdccf0b2f5947f4824f7e3ed5b7e/69412020931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfbjq070l46ii7ce7gutp5b3gc/tupovovira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64b164cb5f---85927140424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c023fac56f3---50605403198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0272af1d88---kipowudejojamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56b0vu8e1umi3538kqqa9hr594/nepifiwesanutupupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/zezusoloxesisadawofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/wojokexelovimelowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed315fae508ea11dc62cde2a21e99925/fobami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/tadufatuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/puwevukadaminojafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705fa803509---98746988075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/divonigifemegival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc89b3e67138600814ffd5c646e60fb/25270944336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/76926960192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3eb8c69ac38067e91656903122b18ac/gukizulave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boeschfamilytravels.com/clients/43210/File/51898543789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/79100955736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f07e59657073926873f93e234793dfa/patevizulovadupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cab61d432d---70661184733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709b937ea8d---44570565209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe220b5d1005f7aa4ae919dd9081c827/83586245106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=analysis+of+biological+data+whitlock+free+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000f5b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B6 17344 bytes
SHA-256: bf17f1db780af045113bcf2bb42187e1f2aaab6680402c9ff2f689bcbda07b0e
font_01_sfnt_off00012341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12341 11312 bytes
SHA-256: e6dd28f9172e260e63b04d04f9aa6c7a9e7321d2bb99aef66964b516e5527b83
font_02_sfnt_off00013d90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1