Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dea1d131dba7cac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 02:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: da7160b0e1944e445bdb12d17ce33052 SHA-1: 89fa6f6a865d35d3c6bd727c2679cb39c962a066 SHA-256: 2dea1d131dba7cac76c721866eb4044f66b6150165b9223d87842d984276c61e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate a coordinated effort to obscure the true destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e068aea6771eb5eee7ae068e7137001/terapiferib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ucbhoa62buqmfrttopuee6i069/31414031703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc7d424336126983f56cb6ff25ee2e84/gijekulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/568984063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934ee68a324---xivotepivugotuxozalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usj1h5g20m3jkdelafre07uf57/34365224772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02e6718e7ee856831addb9b49acdad00/47666738585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0606db797b---dijanafilusuxixudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/mibajukawunexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44bf66f0a38e78b36ee3f3bcd2a94ff6/liruderisupokemadaludupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/kaxufoluzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e43f5e2049---piropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/visakekiwejiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608552a77260a---pugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988e09012fc---lalozigilonoxivasuxazajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c6909fefae419731b2e0ed8cf14d4d/lixofagoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e2a64c0aa22dae821461bc8080739a5/demegonopejefuwapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30476db268---1998177066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sabijogifetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/74524463676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8846b0d88f49479e79a2e53d338fb8ac/85603799653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71juv0t68r2qn3sarsfatoj0m4/zemetuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/pexivariwurikiwunuxudepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cos+x+functionPDF 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_off00011915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11915 17580 bytes
SHA-256: e7f9c8e8d9f506c1c55edbd16912395d8b956200ccbff4990eb010bee8889244
font_01_sfnt_off0001477f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1477F 10124 bytes
SHA-256: cad804d4dbf45ecf6b9bc131d6f180b5c331fb37360d40719ef43b1706e7c14b
font_02_sfnt_off00015e4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1