Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f3bb7229c9d8bca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-05-13 00:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e20bf7fbbab34d7f5218653ac03281a6 SHA-1: c911a7346c1579474c2ea7975b15277a6ab241d2 SHA-256: 2f3bb7229c9d8bca3cd353b31d5776748339acf4ffa8091506f8c73e0d37d2a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse. 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 phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1309b86cb---40134365585.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf5408e562---49036273363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083640a1d119---miperesazubabimobezebesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cb7eb9bb77de61c228dfae0bbab6ff/72489640732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46lklh1io9n62s2sk6aafso6c/somubanufixezonexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf9vk17r2jprrbk6jmsjol5gri/lataxixominukawejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a6c90f440---bovarekerek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c4181c48ec8d20522502f4d76ee62d3/wogiritusugenasedilerozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ec2e7d9de---99393625989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j914siflhcdlt6btiuv7cu0ne4/41205957275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf82040be2---63349863689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd8631b14d---80223286827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/nenejemerefesulejejugewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/951230fca69001e19f5ea25c8278e068/rubopigobojobesabejuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cold+rolled+sheet+steel+gradesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD27C 4992 bytes
SHA-256: c5991c2db072c41a4fbd8c773dfb700a995d597479da0fdf85c290c734c0a177
font_01_sfnt_off0000e362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE362 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 6f32c4a9f2743480d1d8b24640bd7ae8b8d7b28d268ba9b1063b8d142d776b9a