Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2daf2dc5d85f551e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-08-24 18:35:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4b10bf60960028088933f15da01dc6f6 SHA-1: ba0cb7c37b33ab555fbc47b71c7c14b9074e701f SHA-256: 2daf2dc5d85f551e901acfa31b6e093de6323b2d70add0dbd87ca0e0762987a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://eurotechcorp.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/buxikekixovodumom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5304d2982cf5603967f8fa65d639fbe0/12623966376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/lozagafinopimovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/rakaxisigatilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd7fa8124cd199ccfd89d8bbbf677d76/dapukozodifakubaxosabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c533240a841---zifezesudirepalovepuraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/zipokilugifoveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8om2s1mp4cntp5ho17l3v8273s/xenipiboxunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/zekuvewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apbq1f5out8l2e12j0qlllfkec/36953882707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ad9f4ae12fe67a02c050b1589400c8d/darupigidivewopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/11860819061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-18/20210618131221546941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2003ff7d129eb75fc3d4a9095d8f4ddf/zawoxugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/23914551393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/52456248705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/nuxolidemuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54959659153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/zerevirinelavogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/78433555972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf942a3cf1fb113de6d0fd776438d0d0/wipetopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiddeefire.com/media/userfiles/files/76099291162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021072102045857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=two+pages+in+one+pdfPDF 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_off0000b6a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6A4 15304 bytes
SHA-256: 4d5d19b3dc95eb3f09ea4029e7c30b3adfc2041e2519aafe209f7870960f4db5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAD 10480 bytes
SHA-256: e8689b5cd04cc3d2b229b61aff0b190e5110f658dd83db84c8ba907d80ad359e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1