Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d4c3ed70575bb14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 21:13:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f5ffb9e17f0960f5d9d1eb2eec371454 SHA-1: b391cd03d4fda82e51c559ef05a1ec5f4a9ffa93 SHA-256: 2d4c3ed70575bb146cc2274c5f3c3b913896e57007767b65b1603903e27ba63f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and URLs, many associated with form upload plugins, indicates a deliberate effort to create a distributed network for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1202ab6a8a847c7fcf1040b0aeec075e/88672998182.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7cc4a26f4---59291869108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a85535a981---43665894368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/mepalilojeriwopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/96085405689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0df71c035---mepufidajevolijafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/63192862636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eeaedcd3f6---20306580993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0667803d3---rosixaniserebezoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b980dc2b324---98981614121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/fobikojupumuzinefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posh.hr/files/92086829872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f57ce5191---wiputixufavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/14118240282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/nutapega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/84717783920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/2137923006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c99d65035a3084f69a358c4a45a24fb8/17063842332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4d7f0fd84---74010389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210528115758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/39708198562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0805cb3a20968033b4f00135ca7926eb/nufezolugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/jomisolunamabokutozododob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhtongpuu55d2957q25jdr16d3/81726611786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=emotion+as+a+way+of+knowingPDF 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_off000111ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CA 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d0031316f6906198578fb4ce7bed8e10f0e384f4539ebdaa10695e6188c57209
font_01_sfnt_off000129ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000141ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141FF 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 53ce8eeabb80e0df035dd60b29109d4f57b67b487ae9686f65d49a672325055c