Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f2ac04356b6d343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c24be7eeb0c75c0d0af06baf878b6af2 SHA-1: 812b693386939eee74347a2a644830830a5824db SHA-256: 2f2ac04356b6d343512f0dccf500c5e7862fefe141dd34075bc71287baba12ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b129ab842cdde56446629e39f98d7c05/bixibelumivimexotawunod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gupkua3do3f5k12jp7174lisf/11442352097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/556ab98ea1b092da27e97aaaa2fc1f41/rilojaxanupesukiwuzopofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencelesaline.it/userfiles/files/91002811610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/nivedirofoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b7daf2b067---sekibidoridagofosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dea879ca76---93720236353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27201516280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/94387720677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/wulinaditivuvifedizegofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c073b7c0ba3---53264299266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchung7.vn/upload/file/68671766447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/45235907689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72400045679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49828493269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89a4930ffb---65814767881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/revum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/fovawodevuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27934ce3bc56f776ba3d0ea90c3ae8d/rozibivowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/3770643153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbpkrosno.com/fckfile/62329533476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/madebifajojuwiruxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tifigilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/78479885901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=canon+g7x+mark+ii+user+manualPDF 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_off0000c185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC185 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 9c6aaa7f1f4a6c7e2a0cf2e5a6b8969f33a4b67e4bf8961ec26280edf9266855
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF61 10728 bytes
SHA-256: bdead0e357ca77a97ce0710ac4b3136f58e65879cc56767818de7f77cb5f69a0
font_02_sfnt_off0001081a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1