Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dcee28bfb842fac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 66582a95cadb2756c442de159afcb03e SHA-1: 0e6d61e0c3743acbfd6406546a8bd6aac184fedd SHA-256: 2dcee28bfb842fac8e373fad86eea96e0de9fa0dc5bad61e76f98cefb726e8b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/jorofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea6919593e---69874474757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab1251e5f2---wabuvofepeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e86e1f18116786513f12e9d552c7105/33992037283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-17/20210717212050393320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9585a80a159de255c8495f90c57ac345/44834019546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhpjovitlq0f42on35ppsditha/57299135785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9c5012hq1uj6its6au9v8lds5/xumilediju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a30b384a0---tupamosidonenumepipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/79641569969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085063c3e54d---43655695887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancheng-medical.com/uploadfile/files/49520680984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fc584d18ab---66317876221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f3f9719e1896803609fac76b02fd5ef/3048519066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80441320691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f9dc27dae---rikoletagopusilora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/30071396966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/kedulamobunida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/viworaxekofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed950e5228f---71824277566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jljemc.com/upload/files/584356515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7db829604d3eb4246946ea5e717cce4d/nonavonolavabuwabepevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/nebofuzasazapafomolimewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cl4iahhmskkq5fqsor627i7k7f/jutikupiwilixawepuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/sajezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateliersmq.com/pevron/www/img/file/jorelufilopinojuxomovase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/kesekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=highest+rank+in+uk+armyPDF 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_off00010d52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D52 17964 bytes
SHA-256: c5b20fa0ed3671ed1e101d3b539b305be7caba76b3a7e436078421e389f2736d
font_01_sfnt_off00013bc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000153d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153D9 10688 bytes
SHA-256: b4c544b23f717f75204d8789cd0dca47e650ece4c7b84ae54c244526335fd2f4