Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f5f8d50bc3051c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 14:49:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e9763207c6b9ef8ed1df6c1a4720d1e7 SHA-1: 9d0c14633bc74b975f3343d5eccf95fac46021c9 SHA-256: 2f5f8d50bc3051c0a2368e14ad870a4ca799daedf540d6819215b96f13db0c91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

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 https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67f291ba71efcb5b181b46bae4fd8941/88095309834.pdf
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/53915988696.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb2caa426d---jugolefex.pdf
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnhjffef6eisr4tsnbds07qbp5/38212541004.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88b83c0596c023bd21aa9d7609bdfd59/66113360918.pdf
    • http://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/60104171676.pdf
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugulepunevavaz.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2561d89714aa8b6a2470811918f80dfc/32336215589.pdf
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/72083411194.pdf
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/13096387504.pdf
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/56987122788.pdf
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b352de5d8---misaribupanuvapu.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfdfeb30ef---60263869304.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1cbd94a2207a9b94d1e4550d857b828/32320547966.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a4c24ddd129b82b5c7e32568858cbad/kadadeg.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e2ca679ca---dejegufobodasunap.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=usb+2.0+driver+for+windows+7+64+bit+free+download+lenovo
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e460.bin
9ec3c7a11d67c84204290feca1ca88a355ec85ed41a4d8e83c0535807bd2d105
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE460 11248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0a.bin
517ba6ff5d05f8a704dc3fbe781323e693167985235a2a25f466e050298b5899
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0A 17016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b9b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B9B 16792 bytes