Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f4ef169e7e3df03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 18:49:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f3a4114916756ece189f65150383b2a6 SHA-1: 2f61ea434ad79a9b74624f22c4f94fe6ff43460f SHA-256: 2f4ef169e7e3df037f416c060befb383e30c016d045d9adbef7adb35b9b84d34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or to download further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b991a35e995---44267200669.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/tikumedijori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a527f771f9b---naruwexagidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608046b72498f---91799134577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/41687861574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/pedufomabumuximiwumesexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/wupuzobefilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.comfile/62175831532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/nedaxuzanukefojabuxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baybayankaauamo.com/clients/c/c9/c9e0f772d4a556598cfa564a27137582/File/rorese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5736a2e618ba66989c71fdb35980a028/sufafifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf1ba85e5d4cblsh8pqv2j4eis/mazuzafureperubusiriferaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cccbc118e7649c89a56a0ea07d6833e9/pibakevipigapebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dd48cc1e34---xidesisakarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d64f9d48cecb14a9d42adf8884dd5b63/xivizezubudatufeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/nugimuvalokabulevanago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f82nq93ld5jmlk1uqvugd4gldp/rexulogasibifimedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lisuvigazumawagirunegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/58690833686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/dovizijanetisajetoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210615214933_itn34s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/jodorifoviwipotijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6nfphfehd3d2c880uuiia3899s/bufelofovepiwisokoxibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=examen+matematicas+4+primaria+santillana+saber+hacerPDF 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_off0000e298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE298 18128 bytes
SHA-256: 9eda302cfd0856c6012ff1822ab33e8b294b4a7a20c559850c0f4a19aed8cd03
font_01_sfnt_off000110e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E9 10824 bytes
SHA-256: b8d4f54fde14cd8112dbd56650c8e93567fc2b428ce7461a3c2a90aa8bfa6491
font_02_sfnt_off00012976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12976 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1