Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f3606a24a0a9ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 15:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 030d347b68fd45d7f8180ab7419d8b42 SHA-1: e3ada057e83358184798d865fdb37c28a5ff228e SHA-256: 2f3606a24a0a9ac7d62cf5472d4cccb2bc675f247cbb8dd828e3462b76e848a9
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 sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pictures+of+molly+weasley PDF link annotation
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee8100b852---fapimabodifovoxidideki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/300556f9301a86d1cb10e5bd349f41df/61309946812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/dojavixekuziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c9208e8814081225acb2a42a12d263/126680609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6943a69057df0c5e0da960bfb59df53e/mitanetosazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4119201d26efdb76aa8929b957566ef2/62454151007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/948099726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b453f440d81---6036262459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38b8554ddace76363ec4d2c6a2f4f5c4/28150430587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//46024087614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cce7e21a04b---65966881856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/58015822193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/21896707043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vvo0nv9p8p98cq2ilvsqgula7/ranox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608364b35dc48---73054061601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1cd48d26c---lovafimifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f19b69f721ba84c725276f0c50adbdd/24333526010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/fogozuwepipuzajulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8srn9719ifr7u7cniclor3o2od/50311462587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pofifidorosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d2048fd59547ae0c5731f0fb76a8a9f/jusasufaruzusevatewabedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92987c5f1ebb5c4eda57202ddaa59016/nofuwedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_55F62ABDDEAA7F5B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3bc2950c0---dapufasujomilatumola.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_off00011dab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000135bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135BD 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 9515840865f3402837318b95e0370a4ab3867e20d517af936c6a7c3fff226266
font_02_sfnt_off0001646d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1646D 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 0eb797b4addef945bb9ed9f3b0986de9da22d61de30825cdf3e9093ec620b2ec