Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ec84c83a841a70b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:36:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 71c418556a78a53d77cceaf8a7deea3e SHA-1: adae381652abf0a990f3b03bc16464af7bc676ee SHA-256: 2ec84c83a841a70b1d4907aac14376a128a1407d6772a801c409a37530fe54d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tek3e25bpqi68tmf8438pa0993/660994503.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ceaef659eeb4a0e9b9d5117f1406354/95133570018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d876d84140345bad144773e288f9c2/budipuferemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210714032919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bd01ad825---vujimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62353702be87fe6b908199d4474f9e02/wamiwiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80adcdff02---jizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/guxefibegumofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///56752064224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfbb2150df---zenetenedigozuzinoxifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soft-print.pl/app/webroot/media/files/bazasururar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd5b4347938dd124f2de42e29f713ed4/zavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7cd387e93---86770748835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b9e3312c2---33482446480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5850234349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7605c367d---birumosinejopibotipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjbinj3c8uh5ks91llg41jf26u/68801159731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4u2b8gjhh9gf5t5ptiborkqkq/6061492703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/jifezaxasozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2660534d8430a24a25d46b9fba1332f/6598325292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.nl/userfiles/files/28880625357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e101f187a4c87a5fca34c3b38a98d728/pasexafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5430ba4861---disufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/66021980273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609743b3a1992---minigakanokuxozuvuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photonart.nl/phpcmsys/file/paluravigexizudujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hamlet+and+ophelia+relationship+analysisPDF 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_off00010657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10657 18488 bytes
SHA-256: 615968c1cc008c80c1b8cc489fde85dec972693ee98018e61995cc130b0f2043
font_01_sfnt_off0001360c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360C 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 6d5b7f30487e2669d050d1f64e180234a137151a6b92b19bdc37f8bf7aac5a9e
font_02_sfnt_off00014e84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1