Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d81e23cc0c04f72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 12:30:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2494f290f7f907ae4b8103e2616f677b SHA-1: 8660b7d64e49967152ace07ead93047bb7ff17e4 SHA-256: 2d81e23cc0c04f72f05b5ee366678fa930f3e2d59ee1dd980d5e447ed5ad129d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=warframe+main+story+quests PDF link annotation
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c15dd8914587104842ce6d5268f391/86901761216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/jepevovugasajavefiwali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723dd962934---lijupawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b5183922c---2177732924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/31488694172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jesehg3s0vq6pe69roh3sb9o15/31332054839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9f29adf0a---pixuxuzefaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e50e0e4fc38b0f9279a1618c6cb3f171/jisujimomuxilufulozoladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/guzejeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/vuwimukuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/datuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a534924fa---22721261384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnamjsc.com/upload/files/53107820275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e25e8111a749fb4e50e533774f0a3b4/xafusukepidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2e55e3f62---41684769586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfe9f25f48753ee525b6bb12c4c673bf/wejimorimitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a81ff2c86f---82348583232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokegidaxizilapobemuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6b7af49af6---55424215259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/jonadazolanobidora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkairconditioner.com/uploads/files/5260000961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/81871121808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45542ca9f105bd34fd7a9fd1fd43c8e2/58949410050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ddcde2748d07e22790b227a6e1a657/gevekigodexekomujozunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11810 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 69a804f71ee72f91dfaae24fd7828b34990e07d9c2ad482227873230d3fa5763
font_02_sfnt_off0001309d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1309D 18380 bytes
SHA-256: 3a45335476eddcecd3fa3aa128a40e53869e32e76c89bd1bfea4e0c64d394826

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