Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f761d4dfe3bcc9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 06:15:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 383b5b1d8eaa68a6b6078d9e54b4997c SHA-1: 5e393deff3bf9ff59c4f1d10fded6c94b2c5c604 SHA-256: 2f761d4dfe3bcc9be77c94c2cb87b90fdc1c90901c52018b975866ddb4a571b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with many distinct hosts. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad4d6a2b54---kokulurama.pdf
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/4845277312.pdf
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hitsqlmru31ic814numvokt4eu/jofogogefaduboxopuxezipil.pdf
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/woliwokunese.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165d440e3f806e06e0976e1a29170f4a/tubabasipi.pdf
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/konituwuru.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99a55e2f6fcfdb8b3f0ebf0c8955b3f5/32713799260.pdf
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ab63cd57b0529d524be3831735af05/kajowadimepopezatudev.pdf
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c99d253725cc35cee026ad7fbf0100cc/47470269089.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1d6101db9c52ed5b27e861f05002d58/9149614548.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b499cd2addc---57398522117.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4903ca5757---jenegujibiwaturol.pdf
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/fusowumujapomidifadeja.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gidhvl1uauk2idnjb7vip84362/powerufulekerirolazulomel.pdf
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/jofojujetoja.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796038d6c54---62964657515.pdf
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/zekatitu.pdf
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e894996107c39039cfdba07bfb04ef/81029873766.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ada201794a---4774519967.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a96e3c6da---movegeserifotunupimadogoj.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8idfb8e3otrge3pk7li0n2tbg3/jirinuf.pdf
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/97168576107.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/3203348413.pdf
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/64501379120.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=triple+antithrombotic+therapy
    • 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_off0000b804.bin
cf3dc22230247af0e9b9599f9c1b97011373868930432e8547013ed49e4e970a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB804 16484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e30d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb24.bin
8a14c0c02ddb42d054e14cbdb4d68ab8e02028f5199491053336e040b8d68feb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB24 10688 bytes