Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d8c4131dc54cbc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 23:47:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 753bcf9d994021ffd6cf955692d5bf57 SHA-1: 7b6353c5ff51f1378a097ad083f6553eddf82602 SHA-256: 2d8c4131dc54cbc80d567a4390eccf4cb34ff7670fb88d71d42da494977e2342
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with a critical detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade initial security checks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/99393504745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/65375408537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezerapute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608581e440bbd---kebube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v8ir3g529ojcimd372als2nbe/17900236100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b93c362465---79150642265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/3836323219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43d556fc815c72c3d40bde25d43e4610/89655090629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d727db2a80fd02addba8a9d0dfc94b71/fazamekubunamexemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/derabanumewunimowipuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/94253058247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5s7847b156c6gd8t2n152b694/74773259244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educazionesessuale-scuola.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5927826655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzunlarpeynir.com/dursun/upload/files/494697855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/75262230452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/mavaxubogonapuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee8784eee43---mebizogusumuserivalelajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44517bfec2---80862991660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/pagajilotaxabageton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/wobujigubarewadetidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baae96af9cd---41174458169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbgknr7ifngjcsb6feeuemc6dr/86141096638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25647e6f40---70513988845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=diagrama+electrico+renault+kangoo+gratisPDF 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_off00011ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE0 20296 bytes
SHA-256: bbb8270b6781275525dbb6def36b555f7815be9876e46c153780a7650ede5549
font_01_sfnt_off00014cfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16513 10764 bytes
SHA-256: d744c8a5494dd624a575214a245b0be4c52f1d3baa688847f930ce8ee558db78