Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d621c74b93f1ae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:27:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d569fc3e5e1aa4c41488f9dde1965f73 SHA-1: 452d05310c73b53104b80f33ec67cf9d74dcdce7 SHA-256: 2d621c74b93f1ae36cb2a86a3e22bcd5d0be0e465291a60ed5385d6e268841b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links strongly implies an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=seraph+angel+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a0b09f8a2---nepetujobabomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/vufajobano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/19238887357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1926c8bf4d2be8d5b5b4b31b7c418721/874627953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b7043d929feba4e50c9ea7642c38857/ronire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/67121257415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aada7597775---66102005517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13fde17ec3---91915523283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37acc07b7b1c604fad3497f9caa72e5d/82260216955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7311ccd0866436ae7fabb439a8f5871/zumemesomevidetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4d837a808f0c5a89f11e48c3bedc3c/gojonadabakofofobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1624754023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940e54d8682---53228997100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5577ecfdf3725fd3766183b398c95d82/zizotebawivafaxiwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f1490dfc0---lugavakote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/49711333963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jgr2ou2vpro257rr90b1nger8/14639952111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/20227502618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7fc69b1e5669d913a69b474c93bbeb2/5752614284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701f563317a---95242761127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldwidefilipinoalliance.com/uploadedFiles/files/46225119317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jqpm71mlnj1sre0c9ukbseivb/81094433548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdc76ee313---22677100073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/28909115480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585996ed10d252bed900900106f0d409/talakoxowajipovaxefidek.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f6a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A1 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 466c3befc119a51c83cc7249b58c5afdfb688c77838be7991d07f0ad4d3e6e9d
font_01_sfnt_off000124c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C9 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 4e4808e147f0aeddb7e941a3ab84cc6c345436136f6787ab0ec829437a8e10b4
font_02_sfnt_off00013c04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1