Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d62ecc034a0e3f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:44:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a64c83a0fe21c7346a953b4f11529887 SHA-1: c792011f832627cba9ec3cde9228438be214fd10 SHA-256: 2d62ecc034a0e3f2233c5f11f97e4510b9113ece0f5efdb41e9ce019f8cd650d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier also assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful external websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dbb4c252b---61188144444.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abd86uer3i82d94vupfttk317d/70642900123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089730f070ba---82555163265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e8a2de5c2---pupuzujanumasadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/votiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/nepima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5700ed7d31ce547daed428349f66e2a7/xugokimakaxugoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwoxinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/40979940206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730ff3de18d---wiwaxuranebimikiteme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/42029845833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/15228785288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31fb2abaa5---66017833991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db9bb62409---11175143411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b707b58d0---lojefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781a4bc2fdc---56232703058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b61d7b576---31523835227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rndop4s67dng0h26ffvdib4fvr/lugudapigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajilekajofujedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772e341d7a1---75215459282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=wow+classic+skinning+guidePDF 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_off0000f220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF220 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e81973e81acc716061216cfb7ebca89edd5bc3c06e3b8011ab2fcd4cbedd6543
font_01_sfnt_off00010a58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A58 17836 bytes
SHA-256: f83c25572b416caef68bac127c33b63d503db927a8772664b585f60357852b03
font_02_sfnt_off00013919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13919 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1