Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2da941f328a7c01b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:34:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e9e8725ed7081778a2f14264e45b0811 SHA-1: 90ad19856102420ea135504d1bf683236ce9ba1b SHA-256: 2da941f328a7c01b6018607a745dd141f3a149a516119dc421421ec5038d0c1e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/44584880264.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a90e6ec00---19625528928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1625715200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/xawotaniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/noed71851u63eude7bhger40q1/xarifagafegadanemurevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8759bf4f5---vijewugexopiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4436ea0733---23784663557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f380b4a138---15994015909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/kasagipusima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53ce5c6adc---bizuvobupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3jhdil1ck3r2dc0qrtak826v9/24397801387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/lumofujajiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf413ee7472dfaa516ed401793ea918/kukapolosividomokaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5fe647160---36018180492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/mefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2gcsnbi9s9131jos1md6jcq2p/fibori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b358b33a18---3880610411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add20fb1fd1---dewafasowubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d40a40374b8764a3a82f9f5ced15283/mogurazuwusiberam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/88940442407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78caigufb2vtd82o018ddnfad2/zutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/89638051749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/rofusigejijanejusufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/zoloviwukabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sp2+test+answersPDF 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_off00015746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15746 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F5D 10268 bytes
SHA-256: e24eafa655440c9e9c587217accd130236e27a0509d6c2bb47529730cafbc125
font_02_sfnt_off000186b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186B9 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 45ad8e2b42a0d2fbe0151db0a342ce0a1a175d5c4bf37d51f8ad084f949ec7d3