Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dfe54aa0096d62c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:25:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b875db9ac8f7625bdc8b1a70d9cd0013 SHA-1: 6c91f98526089b74a6b39bffb831d33ccd50edbd SHA-256: 2dfe54aa0096d62cf292601aa685d90bf4d591ca9f69e089f9400e0ef8b07bd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs are embedded, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and links per host further supports the link farm classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf953f33b0---sesokusedaxug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/notakugodorotelagabumusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108d885a5372---31844910682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cccoiuoc1djalsn4eu3vhjc07/sijekewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/28126939880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oeq3l3v0ogg0i9k14uhp5ia2t/garij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/90080980791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/sotageburagajorojemavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/28798847347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fr2sfsj1q46qr7l8985jkhcq86/69710782126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/vugusegoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chandrakantmusicacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwusugugisopaduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46fc2d2534126683c33b63979754964/29414662171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/zizunomatesik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b31bgml8ifqrdvk0isbdj0dk8c/58777561492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cff2ac513bd23e38cd0ae9937bd8c2e/64857389801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.org/editor_up/20785004886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e556925dd---mupeladawizotezinimokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/20108392953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3996277c7f---zozewujulotelorisapanetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/luredevirigetamonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/62905272214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1623603113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/doxomurodakijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29314245280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=preschool+tracing+letters+free+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000c028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC028 10796 bytes
SHA-256: bf248cd3ab6740c6b4ab0ee6fce615f1625f6a42b1eee7d80d742a406cc038a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD914 16132 bytes
SHA-256: c056f0d334502af14fc5e306b390120f17e095f0afecb5a61e62087e8b763334
font_02_sfnt_off000102c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1