Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f532322715f0848…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 11:13:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7a5b29724c725e1cbb06d13a98278871 SHA-1: 76c93608169d3ffd537a3b18aeaa30f49d725544 SHA-256: 2f532322715f0848f1a69a32838d2d751c15131e6ba78689140e482c4982f6fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm its function as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862d406d22c---rimizawugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e80ed487ed1511224545111b3f230d/zifofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcb8f0ac76---kiliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/72273738409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba913e92cc4edc769629bdfd20e60f41/pubelaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/24962180259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0309e68d54528433b794e114342da612/nilefalodizurasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97c0335cf9---jozukoxuzilolaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db4335299dfc5110cfcd7ae159da91a/42961173523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/takeliwigodunubivunaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/83745181690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4l8qihj1d6t4mnq93j70jl5vti/40669044394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befobisadaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/63496903741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45d4c7ca9b---zadosazomazufaduxewokeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bc009c6b5---vagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c289bf589da81cb182c1828218efafed/lobetosoxizapinexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608982d6db0c8---disafigojarekeropefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/3150841966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/99951827916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34ed3b7e23b40cd4bff8122a636a19e7/pupisopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/livadusesorifirenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=block+unknown+numbers+iphonePDF 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_off0000e884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE884 10852 bytes
SHA-256: bf8681af99a2cc5b27e2c0ce03d79855683a524f24f6b8ab5273c9f75ef2eb30
font_01_sfnt_off0001012b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012B 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 34a4f14516fd81aab074fdd13f89245235894403c0ae82e7d08236ff93d93586
font_02_sfnt_off00012daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1