Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e797cee846d23d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-05-27 14:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2cebe76114a809dfcddb114b7c704c62 SHA-1: 25ef9ec4c432d9b22034dc61b9e6228ec1ae471b SHA-256: 2e797cee846d23d37ed030a63a80c07d9a54e52b45bf3cbd5faa5c4378400b8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'cfop all algorithms pdf', suggesting a lure related to PDF manipulation or algorithms.

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://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d97da51d7---lojorufupudaxumilisamal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/xitesobesuguwelaxejukubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjm4aj14m6p4skm9k0qph6bknm/vokumunawomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e766dfaf28eefbc0abfda92d8325b0f2/jezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/725cab2403ad3de5b0f502518ff2496c/jumovobevutejabeguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ca6ae705e11623a7543f8b331e5053a/29158064186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bcf1675d0---17688504628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/luxevomowosumikakunazipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88d76b060b---47746526177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da93642bae60d5fab4bf2c040c8d4275/4287620948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce328e5497835c85d0fe85cdef7c321e/25376563719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608228cf7ec0f---sumaxuzulaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607581859cb1b---jegubekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608298f1f2d8f---ruxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/mulegukubedevosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cfop+all+algorithms+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC54 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 77135c86cf9b3042ea424cb57581c86d800823dc877173b7c15c7d34943097ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD80 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 4d5800816bf91d975aaa0111b570ef324715845c65a3176495d40b7b5573706c
font_02_sfnt_off00012392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12392 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3