Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ded4037df908da3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:36:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c47d9a91d6e788ca883faf51670823eb SHA-1: 2018cb9018fde741bdc0720a3c6fe8626d1db1a0 SHA-256: 2ded4037df908da30afc838b3ce639fca47776a4569c9ded2c4e8886e4bb3f45
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URIs and the nature of the heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b229265962dfa929a5f353892b078a6/mibevololepupowular.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072efeea03a1---gomolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/sejavulitakibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/62205111238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/29605144266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/32405992092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082736ee57ae---nufolijuvexigepuvivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84f67b025f3e673a912fbf9cea30590/34781276208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/53552957371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inn8ms1dictlgrlop9tj3jhsa6/forinabikebesogaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/vanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb83fe3f95---jidowejufigekuvusaxevof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741ad871943---14655822349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/gejufefuxonokafenagediwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb6a93a9d2---77108746389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79007aef4d---72346933998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/tujezelijole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/89617791585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b801ea809---75881414548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bfe785a8e---nisifekuduburuxemotuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdba029997---61989129257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0vf89bq17vk7m2oijvl52mcu2/medekekamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/83180519725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758137409ae---lijukene.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=primary+socialisation+and+secondary+socialisationPDF 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_off0000f6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E5 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 48c9f02bd96b5a1cb3e9736c3d1728aa48be809773fd53c8cc528e1983bdc837
font_01_sfnt_off00010f44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F44 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 2b898516c4e4d182d31b6895699e6ea43bce29398581d47ea6aa869e47c26c29
font_02_sfnt_off00013a34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1