Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d7263829188c966…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:11:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3d78dc3b3bc3993428c92f4a91a83dc5 SHA-1: c35b846acd4d1bf0f32d1519cfb35a8f60e49022 SHA-256: 2d7263829188c9662c00b1c1eee2e71bb79da85e4d24dedea058b35ad8a04a19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely initiated via spearphishing.

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://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6c8c8e1998ec8c5560f2b33deb1bcb/gosekem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e04e40ab9c046bbdad5a212cee7184aa/35353784644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/41503353298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774c517e2c3c53b39b5c23e70045efa3/pimimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/4945149362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60a0d72009---gesubepuwezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/bupanoribal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/rigadunawapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk21713lh5tpmh9kfb9b8buhp5/jewunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simufofigifamamedujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58e7490131---95264931822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/datotumesegekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/lepubejipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/refasagugakanikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e25458a9a---difug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc1f927db1---lopokogifubomalexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e69f9dfaac990bba79ca9fb377d0cb/tegurakedamamikutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handlpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/39831365929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaszamocin.pl/img/upload/files/tejulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parokisantolukas.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/gezatotofojeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3aebeeec84dafeae2b5b871e3da427a/37588837618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/51666724959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeponafidigunako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/61038638733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mathalino+dynamics+pdfPDF 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_off0000d554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD554 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6B 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 166bea818bc355db01850d7b28174bbe12f1a603e82a1f9389da96ed8f950fd4
font_02_sfnt_off000105f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F9 18056 bytes
SHA-256: e3445770cd71fcd944d31b60d5d9daa6a734e4beb49a8f22561861f6421555f6