Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d9ef3c2b2472913…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 17:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f2e6cd4c27c8f024713c56edd25337af SHA-1: 9d99fb39ad9584e08d7c6e6f3af4599922f24a9b SHA-256: 2d9ef3c2b24729135b9e2a08e1a8c1b6cc1ddf89a1ce525299b61604d60ed903
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, and one directly to an IP address. These URLs likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=math+word+problems+with+answers+for+grade+7 PDF link annotation
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3d876036f---miseram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769a774f487---67797281560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallassymphonyleague.com/clients/1/14/14bb4a025281f1a32078cb68571f7cf3/File/68281630510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/dosorukine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/79748034929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/denewimaxutegakuguguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sospapa24.com/lib/ckfinder/imgupload/files/62879869289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/niferesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/046caed3bbbdeeed41e57f1529afc719/21451972935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843a7399e19---75139802165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3700ubvmf3pa5i3ct3dkim8o4/73363142321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/laxala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/nexazilubotuxesolatesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/85728084813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i657rbch59eob83fo3h3fk346/5104465285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/51600152813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/rexorafirarakowagepa.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210611184236_g4207d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkbgqd3b17icq276hrtpr4dnm4/52618253109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///bezikozifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/30277812993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestrasenoranm.org/clients/8/88/88a18899c67a61641ca1f7d027daa919/File/danuketosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/fodawaxitifoxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/zurilokusaguvudifulikubek.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_off0000ed2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2F 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 8d432346800ec2db0d8d2006c3635a93a7c8dafaba1c8245386fc4b5c85906ba
font_01_sfnt_off00011bff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BFF 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 603e4bf520638e42bea406e64f82a0192c55ed2fe461f76c931d58a5873eedf2
font_02_sfnt_off000135c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1