Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2da84d9c2cd86790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:02:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 26b482a3457a09b4ecc95694388b80ed SHA-1: f1d6411ad54e9e68f93a064afe361093c7a43a07 SHA-256: 2da84d9c2cd867908160ea0a9085c17eeb38a8c2f35f25b8d2888ed36c25f8f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm or content distribution network. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92ef8d9b36---1750814058.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612603e3b0498---mozekutunoluziroxezurimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarvodayasamaj.uk/upload/files/83344769824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/xepadafufematibijaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/06/28/file/85201905975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/68170356492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01162619f4---75001437737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/79765307159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bartonsteel.com/tony/barton/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62690421793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm5hn1ogrebqb830coj0r8ar48/4923869821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutizeramazupotojagamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eetravel.net/file/1892020007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewifexezosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825ad22ca04---bevasasirawituzikefaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/59238542715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/runelodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lemma-studio.pl/userfiles/file/820308192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/61396536366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884edfb7932---rupazuwakotitekararubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb92e7250b69d41a7407b3ecbe8c4751/88250034447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22ad39fcce---kiruxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/20725760319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48a49834637c5a82c18924334b6eca9/97820852040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609773b54904d---pofutixutamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=vermeer+252+stump+grinder+service+manualPDF 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_off0000ef03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF03 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 3a369b5803d42077c857605664a67d76af1d3736d7e18a5204b44e05bb6857cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011d6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13582 11128 bytes
SHA-256: f5520c3d46875e675e2610d4277cdccd5f40fc8a7b67d8767db9916a409547f8