Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d8f7ed76301c91c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-16 07:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c90e0d0101bea347da96d8c5a9fae4d7 SHA-1: 16e32a6531fa7b465f2d3d8de5fe4a49fdb73150 SHA-256: 2d8f7ed76301c91c48ba3bd850bb3c5a019e7ef2aa3428e73bdafd81ccc62f8a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or spam campaign, primarily through its extensive use of links to external sites. Many of these links point to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, indicating it likely serves as a lure to a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=employee+resignation+letter+format+in+word+free+download
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972bff70b60---wenusijisudabitazuseji.pdf
    • https://bhalakusari.com/uploaded/ckeditors/files/vunize.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56pudqf943krhvf87j2dg8e7o4/voruwez.pdf
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/mukov.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719f6261d7b---jewitegeros.pdf
    • http://salinahighschool1967.com/clients/c/c9/c9c88be04994199279bceb128c91314f/File/xijijexizasokakejipiwo.pdf
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/52789995521.pdf
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/37402433996.pdf
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607817842fc63---jukibuxadakokogekuzus.pdf
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d30a2018bfb25c8b01cbf4a118275e5f/33024597975.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/560f7a1f099044d89bca603491f8be12/22895719013.pdf
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/93151567903.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3df35240af---98427866408.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvaoe186oov5pk60ps9t6jl2tp/bupovogeruwawobaw.pdf
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b7ad31f66eea0216eaab8ef11155a38/58432620884.pdf
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents//files/42599864513.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5afbb51149bb43dee95f1f015bc750/dinewojava.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bere6ikehihfefsht2o7j1bohm/49869543459.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fogctsj46kv66dp1bn0slmr3q/77612915667.pdf
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/vafadi.pdf
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/nuxanelujiguweg.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2ea.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b01.bin
b1c0b79e54ba1901b043d85493e01fc7cba08d1afb3fed5db5180fc64fe77e0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B01 11024 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001247f.bin
4dce5476754ca64259c717d87154fe10b879b942403a024a92e14715665c9695
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247F 17040 bytes