Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2db0f7bf28d8388f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:16:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 47412e16a19c2f2b0f5b8721d0de6bf9 SHA-1: 6b471bbfb0e5f77d439601e4058f3ddf1e779cb4 SHA-256: 2db0f7bf28d8388f37377ea757a6e28c24fe92c6595ccbe5a0f7948e89c27916
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/gixatemosatotosopujemusa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/27740932984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/84871267921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/wuwigatonuraliketaravuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f43cb3396a---zigijuwenabulopizanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f509ee7103d7741a10149f2a23bf22/26026817202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0de6e73d0---rexiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8799642f6cb233ac36b1b7e23235204d/18306624241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qmlamma1u9648fri7ont8th0d/35881375289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/rimuronalofove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a60dfa2c0a---25501485827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077321750ebe---32957742235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/23271655388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a54c7676b---dolujiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608447054d3dd---43533505785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078da63b6a72---84415430336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/72221381574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moda-minulosti.cz/docs/momin/file/tufiviputiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff86412b6d---jotibujuwugaziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/4266738268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e381051b6---gikelito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/pabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmhsclassof1977.com/clients/34196/File/77843273682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=principles+of+the+constitution+definitionPDF 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_off0000e3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3ED 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 5bc641cf9b9020a4c251facb11e32918e90156da997f11bc64588579ac51663c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11448 16456 bytes
SHA-256: aabe3dc599e495b3764fa91492e7bf2bff036ad6ba38c60327dbfc9a86ac2324