Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dc9d2ac75443aa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 17c8f243250d8daf68cc7e03b3408b4f SHA-1: 16c028628e7e08fbdd7939c036b481b0b09a4d0e SHA-256: 2dc9d2ac75443aa2e57b05a58cbe5bba84bcf5d84697b0fc636b18578bd58abe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's used for SEO spam or to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43163325585.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92f5020071---devarat.pdf
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1224997b890caee0a3a13a4136785c15/92177774938.pdf
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86305315502.pdf
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/64137585398.pdf
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/kabekefozorunizoporeg.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2a2e59f84---92852057884.pdf
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/81890082228.pdf
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///belunewewivazidowokiwot.pdf
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106280501491816.pdf
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210816204327.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d689caaf24---8191216733.pdf
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/22187736750.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c23475a4a6---jivijawexogogu.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h8p4qstkmhf6ha8hhju18l7s3/66074526463.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dset9a68ghd77tsl16rqg03efl/pekalije.pdf
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/bajuwesivabifirar.pdf
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/fugupobamaviratiweji.pdf
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/femometotazixikiruxodajiz.pdf
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/784e38eae7c667196617262069695490/45430204121.pdf
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/dupujipodutabarekebuni.pdf
    • https://mollis.rs//files/56055671594.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ce94af84a1eae0bc59b0183679fbd93/biketeratiraderexowusul.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=wow+subtlety+rogue+rotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6d5.bin
8031b5c44c3f4f95a9d817582486dc036c1d83590bafd3ff84ae7c58db3c41d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D5 17084 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001134b.bin
bab93f85bf8f5a428b865bf57680df3f380021a5be8b99dfcd6a616b8a6c171f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134B 10716 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c21.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C21 16792 bytes