Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f0d9b277faaced3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3cd5990fb4eabeeeccdf7c24246ffb83 SHA-1: b29a578e4c680166e8babf93de6bc75b6f50acd1 SHA-256: 2f0d9b277faaced37e2c98cd92f3d04d127e040117fa462efaa8b12d3a04e667
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, a common technique for distributing malware or leading users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e86f12089b---48092437664.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://room12shio4.com/contents//files/libexetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4dbf37f44429666413d68256114137e/lomewizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24s5ab5mil4vnjpknmr1s7u185/89544802778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/fomigurevedosubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/47240442204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3a2tvrbdtd9vk3c0kbtkbc9b6/fodopujoperowusutowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25202323693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isof7ge9a0jk67go9ss2o87mv3/76285713615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/27842600824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/kakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ee718a8e62962aba8e9664bdbc9448/wazoxerobodozeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5bd8b7ec3a13f188a63772c9bbba0b2/80255109677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kezmosas.hu/files/file/lulajuparexavuwisikurolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--arbeitskndigungsrecht-best-5zc.de/userfiles/file/97242679625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210606091443_d2FydWp1cA==.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607407ff17d9f---50551765139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/fetugenevamijedekigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/597d01426bca6853093658e4ece1be59/16588523484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/lexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqoinv4t9h4i127c06q1jr5n5u/21595846894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpuh0bhevdt0gri80el45013p2/posetikanujakipimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mjfplkgp6eqo2cokfnfg12ah1/99812266082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+structural+analysis+4th+edition+solutions+manualPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860f0aabbd9---pudedipigelefagi.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c18e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC18E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A5 11012 bytes
SHA-256: cd169001ef2357fa508c4d474c3124e6a6f564f1e9d9918eee93c700b82863c0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f31a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31A 16440 bytes
SHA-256: eb4b6944db646333a3082332f4828aafe6ef6f09b708f605676ac7d84bc9b105