Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dfea2a5a544e3b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 58bc79f43bbce50801348b27655e47e8 SHA-1: c847e35d36eee5ec86506738da51bfab957f1998 SHA-256: 2dfea2a5a544e3b977297a7a37bdbbb1a83ba23a30df7808df29e50b8f3c5220
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exhibits multiple high-severity heuristics, including a link to an algorithmically-generated URL and a lure for clipboard command execution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics point to an attack pattern involving user interaction to execute commands, likely for payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f1bd192ac---gotibibiwiwipirimudoreful.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f40b3ae0a3e---33900868629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/94988735774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/poloxuwimuniwikizoxekobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/zavarenafejelosusowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/88222258973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/173377d08f629c227f73f58c421e89e3/32924724894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambulatorioveterinariosismondi.eu/file/40074823364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106090357383395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standrewsparishhighschoolclassof1964.com/clients/70428/File/60153078258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810639e66f6---16091884160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/lunafuxasemoxeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/14387264588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/filoximajajitosurawarego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec7c871364---zilusodapobone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839d2a9269---mawelesotanuwajezezebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1af4fdc9dafe53fcdc6d24647e6e78b2/9764659665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/41370732246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/fivimalel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d3433bb39870b9b1ed9322fbc93be1/56819630933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87255992472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqtmcd3bfr2meve5d6ghi7vfl5/78663513679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugivanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/85962170231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8ndebva3iimngmo5lt1ao3k35/80015585021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=convert+word+to+pdf+app+downloadPDF 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_off0000dab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C5 17956 bytes
SHA-256: e0ca4ee07a6104f5ed79504259a0d9ac11b164ce8d0dcaa80030d325ad8f33ae
font_02_sfnt_off0001212a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212A 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 8164e0b756bf0aa28f16ed0d3b1dba3d2a8803da45adbefd52b4f6864fb03bc7