Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f2ea31b63fe2ca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 15:18:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 70d0928de16840394c5834e2b218c658 SHA-1: 9a33a34835c967db61fa03c0b9fb8a6559f51840 SHA-256: 2f2ea31b63fe2ca906c521155e51a0f6210bdb2acf0b15fed1d5dd4c6d627bad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on potentially disposable domains, reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsj2mkcpgslhv39hev4f0tsn05/mipodoka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/30606749536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950d018520d---tupudixejijosuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f48357088e8985ada6379666569f94da/konakavirewomefexikowos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4fc022a7cb238ebb1ba40640a7ef234/nekedareluxunimodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cff023091b---sarijikesonamosixizita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totulimozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeafcb33064108bfb3ea4735a0b2847f/70076438893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/32900107266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d1c3be105---92759888094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongfangguohua.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joniresifevike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860f7b8260b---15812060991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a644c32a6905250932398614ee13f51/vixaveres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b993ead395---nogipuvedosunosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da716cb84c6---samomobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/218053290353982fcc05696b6b4f17ea/67226840671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvps3cu273vviofm4a26pmuua0/zujijasuxotepixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858f7ed5376---56031835311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbb727f10f---xevojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/43440864111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab12de07b3654c2e119fe717f998bd3/26914526514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/187efca8a222655ab856c4361b47646c/xirezaninajapisepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092076b15613---85323249574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2d982f1dc---56387404416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=corrupted+recycle+bin+windows+10PDF 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_off0000ef51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF51 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 31f0d6fdc454ee1899835d924322f659680b8564840fe162759664a4672de6a4
font_01_sfnt_off000108db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120ED 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 387316f0f6ea6313363bc0ab72f120ac09484134fb02e0adf5710013686f5a72