Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e7ff239698fa770…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 21:22:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dd87f4bfd1b57e011cd2c2347e9eeb6c SHA-1: e22685c2ca2c675a7694891d544db28e982b10d5 SHA-256: 2e7ff239698fa770a616ea0d4386c28dd2f7fe7ab12a2799fd12af9b04351577
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifier flagging indicates malicious intent. The URLs are likely used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=police+vs+thief+3 PDF link annotation
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/307ac794498494270e1efedde38f7f31/1294977475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a505ac0758e70fea7bb692187ee0f70/rawogawudimakedilotejotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e48c484cc---75535371536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fd1579ed2---29428401728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpmgd2sgo7nstvscojvufh3jcj/lofevozujime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de548248a04c2ac446a160ebd02ba54/saxukulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/6188675590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e43950cd9---29168370261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn7sb2riqeadvleref31bdojca/1190181253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/41133375178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cae43995a---89771004183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818b746c1aa---6000720684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm0e09jqps3ujll0nqc60gqjs3/46240321378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/giwumulozirefabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fc45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC45 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 2c49a5ee6e9930d70352d9723c3cd022cf5614c1194d4387c293de87b2892ad0
font_01_sfnt_off00010cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFD 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 53de2b8508b94aa44d18ae8cac549709b647a2db15ebde9f205abe22e981db64