Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d75dec2a52a8dfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-09 17:38:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 28ef77f34216465054c715b4879a4cfe SHA-1: f17043c5c4a393feb66a548eb3f8fd23d462aa23 SHA-256: 2d75dec2a52a8dfa6284c45cd7a561e423319e0e4aaaf2fc41555a9b3be51fb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094083e56e7f---98008619219.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/ronax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/11575582775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jenopelezimutalunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968e61a7d22---gazatazinelejexetivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5030caa0ff0ec7942e2acee064a73f9f/55482523600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099639c534c6---86171792532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/wuremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/kefalunuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff654023b9---57366742554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestizhstroycompany.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/83069610444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607097be84b0d---vifolajofanubolelujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/inc/getumobovosedewuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58004377956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea61a905c916c1e4506368138b620005/fopekitopuwufajegejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48a413a5c6adfb2f0fddcb04511285e7/dejaserikaxifuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nashcentralfalcon.com/clients/d/d5/d5bea9c86035def548a020f7371d19fe/File/6540970752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia838d9r033d6m8bmv3k8p8069/51407853255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/18164758868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95f7e37d6e---mazisiwivajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/vefonokedizizuloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210619112243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=horse+conch+snailPDF 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_off0000e6b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fec7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC7 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 2b583fe2eeae4667b868856f568e2d042f99adb7f986e6d211aae0fac6f9e78d
font_02_sfnt_off000129de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DE 10220 bytes
SHA-256: bcc5a6c3246e29db2966df0ffdce8c79d3f7322174b4b078171e030a347014e0