Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d7cdd2203f63802…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 03:10:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: fe5044212e77aa63c79d65787e00017a SHA-1: 3aa68f3ca29d21102254b08205e4b558768cf258 SHA-256: 2d7cdd2203f6380252098ced955813c1dbfbe4dab1c494c5cf2cb4c397a948e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a400f623435a8f875014924f43a9dc30/vatoneduputarakom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892f943a59a77836617b75ac33897eab/vabidisaxediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/tipezivunizunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e120a50e9d667ffd3dadb4cf2a2dfaa5/fexijedufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb82de657b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///23905893920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ldb3sgeen2i23cs0jbc1jroaj/vasosejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/sadukowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/4626964544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b65aac23d5---busamunekiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce4dbf74b80---29909256687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b435534a75522dc4589d671207989cc/37255433943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tefezata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1vm85u6dmbclsqgoil1p3itq3/todudeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceb51d0b472---towozezodatozidirisatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28937801751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba53ca234c2---lelaruloketenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/rojuzinukafuvuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a1fafa066fb699e0a6ff93d6748e8e/75508998706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608445cfee920---60961971696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae63292778b08a0a6f90f29f3e5f04b8/16639448111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d81820ccf8---dumegofokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f836512ada6---98209832989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=suspiration+in+a+sentencePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000defa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFA 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 872f0191751a20ef02a848323985308af06d464311c8cdaff42bdb4f6ebf7896
font_01_sfnt_off00010f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F36 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 63d998756f423463516c9fffc244037f97f7976f6b1dfe21b4d8ffc6545fd6bd
font_02_sfnt_off00012734.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12734 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
font_03_sfnt_off00013d22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1