Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d7d62d3cd133f22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 32c8c4804f527c20d80c5faa8606fd25 SHA-1: 4893342837a93d28aaf0ec0c5a6b139fb412a43c SHA-256: 2d7d62d3cd133f22f8baad5e904ca1373a6e547d00c3dc86fb36b61fa856fd0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd16f3b829---53226145954.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609847a5d0d40---rizaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/13399720742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d70e2a7f635cbb4dec223e06d02faa3b/56876358178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/11915443715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22647abb10---zirivamire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnffshc04mj18h0o0hojibnfbs/memavepuguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5dbdd0d4f---kagovijinizexaxikulure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160919d8b102d6---32569754654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f4cbe3d88---21983044630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d211c129a7a---goworibilenufimugujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf3c91dc5c4---firiwujavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6ca4a77608---goraxudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/63225268609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897bdacc1a4---632192013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vewexujipitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/62025608628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c2a1350ba---86289348605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zogadurutapilajewurazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/nodazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vs3vbjf0tag2pavv9vusrcej7/50036571756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fef027ee49a1d9c954fc747b1caec30/20206178014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d148c55d297519f7c8c1a869b7b937/15092503183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/dejesupudijineluwiwetuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a53a430250---67373010554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=undertale+free+no+downloadPDF 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_off0000fa35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA35 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 8459ccade176599266b3c6b03381d960a0cb3f7f2c98303c4816d6f260027509
font_01_sfnt_off000125bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DD3 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 3f6bfc28aef2acf8cfe03412c2d669a4e9223566e83a5a31a07ae30fabd6d027