Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f4260c8ae88f18e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 22:02:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f049d02298243bb8640a74f7d3733c00 SHA-1: b9e5f1e61c67c653118320a58e5da82ad3f807dc SHA-256: 2f4260c8ae88f18ec087be3994e41288eca31140d9b8b0f46080948c6886c8c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, designed to redirect users to other malicious PDFs. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this file is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9224

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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56a93f1b84---kezewip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/fedalixirixuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wonoxiganijupusodasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/kenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49951q6kldpkopudigdtit5g7l/beninagimevozadusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6ondrhi2d188qka8hjqctqoni/87624863561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf438cb0ba3---51770736641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879ea0195eb---tagoxowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9af7506d45601dce112313d0afef87a4/rividumirijapigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081461b30473---wanawiraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/36498360591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/76819633576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/95411254086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b21d265f14---27752317466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knusr3apj8d8q5jn58rapuf141/rukopubijetogabare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/66719172778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/wurikuzojobu.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=el+abecedario+en+letra+carta+may%25C3%25BAscula+y+min%25C3%25BAsculaPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA4 5400 bytes
SHA-256: e8ec2d26523d5f08ef415688d5e8aaf4e3bb6eca4c1e01ef1d8f379c4246db3d
font_01_sfnt_off0000febe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBE 15928 bytes
SHA-256: 914eafd870b3ddee2da3d6fd398fbf6a1259df62ae4a31f2fa13de0dc3a8a99d
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF5 6124 bytes
SHA-256: 517d207e334e95f168b6a7a5a68f07772b50f80799599166879725e40cde1586