Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f0637524c8a0920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 04:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4f6e3de545229e948cfd8b4dfee42748 SHA-1: dcb8d81cca093ea582d1b3542496ab73a8d0ad8b SHA-256: 2f0637524c8a092023b2ec020d619c0030424d893e0efc0bda5c5e15767bef06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/49663146522.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f820a249b---tojagugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc1lsrp5qhum02kejtchjh0c9o/61002407959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2147964fa2---3407909129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423c7ee52f---11051004993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1552a30d356afaedac960efcbaaab37e/mumufudujofumaxetezufawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/kutiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16092554649427---42022294210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61975100640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c255561b1---3696598970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f325031ae48---lofamegujolerelipubexibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d0c247fe0---16286508125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///90973492410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078245e96866---38736900946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5b601f5d1---83763211629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/zozedidodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788ae8bd882---patezekekaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sejh618l0b9jbcsc1hesdn4spl/66780737338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc62e83f735---81135063748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4c5aafc16af1bc988b6657b77ae6537/webefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tl3k7f7bpt7skued57k1iajm2v/15668114353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab6a718f1a---noligaberegukasuzota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents//files/wozadimofedamebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86e24a5e81---xelakijufexamekuwutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/nagowaroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/90264601777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=parent+child+interaction+therapy+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://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_off0000ebe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE2 16312 bytes
SHA-256: e4ffd9f05b19f3b66650b28af9e38ab4af711d76772f3a07fa1a3a567363fdb7
font_01_sfnt_off00011627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11627 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E3E 10664 bytes
SHA-256: a3b06580f192314881d1bccc36a6a29137d83d4ed71856c10241783b06504980