Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e47653dac117193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 15:46:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 01b043be09eeb276210274a54c5bd920 SHA-1: 76db93f64b0bc8e796486232c4383e090d499075 SHA-256: 2e47653dac117193cf69ad2f8572369b8d85d4ebbecedbc9434362d7beeb3670
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, which in turn host other PDFs. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where the initial PDF serves as a lure to further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62032e3321f53991291b90ae71737d6d/29893399052.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6beac0d92e423e3728ecfe8de128d158/33705212199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/wuwekisikujobelupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f435c0e8836fdb8f921ca605fe901be/81962232745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rsj1u46eomiquc9apbljjtlek/1641885535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m95pts9knp1v84m5an0af2jccn/rirudimakodoniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/16699603297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a7774472f---90122813271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1c98335a3---jitunoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/kisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/339526ad5a8fe8b7c524b739020e28ef/1013732879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/50497617491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e8dfb2caf---musesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/79854138005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/77477693761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/zisupixomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=classic+data+marktspiegel+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE04 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 81d2c7fec26c0c61168399b7a40058c6a8823a33c971cbf2208e0de73a9543f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE071 11792 bytes
SHA-256: a14976c9b747fe79c99b47f62482ca2e9008b37f875fde1d54014e8eb90bdfd1