Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f4ae7ce0e077064…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 147541cebeb01628aa5ae459f9796198 SHA-1: 5436f50a41e69152cdca55ce76361b83c2c1221b SHA-256: 2f4ae7ce0e07706412beb138524f027e7986ba730a7710a6e297d762c7944828
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these sites, which are likely used for phishing or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9844

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://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/28712051085.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d215beaac0---10372584883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/5848389683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/soruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/pimajebuzafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpp300.fr/userfiles/file/lufanopoziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/derepatopamiwawuvonuxuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6e8189fca0172b5ac3d20889dbb1e5/rubovojaxoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highrise.pl/file/vanofizuxafugisemeboporon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elshandmadedesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8908600324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pchome.uzai.ca/upload/files/10678560445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/74112411336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ccc2087e0---36230757531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/35953795474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39b9b9838b---84262780035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mami-m.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/55200526333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e084de5b3---338340150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52583865999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/33281287639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/7136550915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fff32b064e---309692888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/zanizulurolofizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/77605624265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oembag.com/uploads//files/202108122001078500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f6f1b4f99---32102910927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9193d9fc72de0fa4d012648bd14d3d/bunurekikimixunarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents//files/87738792414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs675tnlaojmcmco038lmre0i0/poduvewokusegosurezovene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mertz+lied+ohne+worte+pdfPDF 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_off0000cba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA5 19472 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8668fe9033518ccf18ab1290512abd274b3ce18f40f6acf89527306bf0658a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA7 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 2a63532b049104787f5c9be03fa99ac29174d17b4e31707c1cd0a4efa5ab4aec
font_02_sfnt_off0001152b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1