Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f0f127e111211ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 56b16fc185e9ace919a86809bf67cb6f SHA-1: 84938c9e2182a178d74f9c147d85149bf8a057a4 SHA-256: 2f0f127e111211ee84a0c39defbe5ccd66259174fbee1c34ef14bb9dbee51756
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that often leverage embedded JavaScript for exploitation or redirection.

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aapa+salary+report+2017+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42ef079f7b5505a5cb03653a135dfc29/23672255237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8591440d6---memesawixumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62307348555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85b7f7b76c53a600e452783a7a2d95b3/vewefakugesusimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0un9psfcqjn4pinrg34upl4v6/wafalogeleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca4dd2e057b8a31cc17b1feb185f1e7/38118055899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71bfe6d10181eb38fbfef443c8534b78/41736209300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eksiliotomotiv.com/upload/ckfinder/files/35015394569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8fe247fd7---wamerijijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/lobotesusiwujibetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609833bed49af---68563759289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe7e5a8dfa70ba365fb12884b895c17/damanaterasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d188674ba8b---76958014556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e9ba57532---fegirujajajamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/21797271166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f209a9cbfafbac1d87a302bf8b45aaad/wejagetizega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/19681404542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da7d90f850f28b93398b7602b3b40bf/wituro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/93826657448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/jafunenuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozuniwikuzixoxodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408504de51c80e0558bf292e260c4a3b/20113541937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/991438b4b2a1470619f3da7838d4c53d/63984142082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c9lhb09uthrsghvjec76b4oqm/fudimiwusomuxi.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_off0000dedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDB 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 14c6cead74df3092b2e7545bf7df127f79b4fbfb73d701378d1b8a0293be0fc5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E7 18340 bytes
SHA-256: b804835b0aeaa28deac47b577ae256070f760513ce2f5276b4bd14e691c5afbd
font_02_sfnt_off000127c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1