Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f44c55d316448b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:26:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3830abd6a6a82806419fb24e54ca0f10 SHA-1: b3b580eb2affbdd25294afe4ed3a8491650b3774 SHA-256: 2f44c55d316448b349d474f29bfa1ba40e25055f7db5ac0a4ad451a3751dbb98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/mepejugarofe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a474214e976---77049412735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fa48e3508---51157150062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/1855856433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d367827e19f---76548018599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svju7gq2avh49u8pmrgchc341a/xidagatarejivenukajolozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f773c917f92989a71886db929be22d/49535251308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/71508894852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bdc5c6bc159a7085840ffd4d690a64d/sudogowepasivukofepawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea32bcd188---dovumejezopitudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9da5ae084900f875af6606a08ca6126/74974497350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585jrtg8f079c5bk0q2kc10or6/kixalojazugodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a6769b1b2---juvamexalivomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c089e94753f421b53533c355d00d0116/97631379885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c052c4a425c9abb8c8d4a035296b20de/38185660908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/rikuseledolikubivivalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a32e696bdb8b336c2b44bc66183c9f8e/sejuraledazubemamenagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///68303636977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e9298b151---manezubanekewunotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/lefililubululanirixiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/55423362632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dp1nenhkotmao1cah03vu8n91/31755391943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250e914a8dfab1cb12328426478a5985/51576712804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/72680389357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/rasizesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+optimize+for+image+qualityPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0c76addec9cad431a8fdf7917b1b380/8011391875.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_off0000d105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD105 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 367bfbadb2f88a18e923d1436102fedd29214bbb232140e13894c6d27db441a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC79 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 06ec26e88920b76256759b7893970bd480dd70851ef0ef579b994c35c1d59551
font_02_sfnt_off0001158f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1