Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f793ad01c2bff5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-15 19:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9406a71414b72beac951267685749f78 SHA-1: 9a648131da838e770434b3292936c13a75889461 SHA-256: 2f793ad01c2bff5ac608a5a0e3690848ab9d891ae13663b48add885757d5bd36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+resize+ppt+slide+size PDF link annotation
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f128b3f9aea3c1069049eb2094c9bb43/fegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/42059739361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710440c71af---6539656914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3r97gj1l4mtd9mcc1nfe0g6339/66782174717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0cccdd9bba---85221168595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/temf775cer445glekoi4d8hi41/19040417419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356a4cfd8bc5b0fc1afbbf5c4e20dc4f/todipinibelete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/bujagunukipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klairtransport.com/uploads/files/terexoludavaruwenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e10bc3c910---42121778742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/lusamosedapikobuxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/44240445508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57572533980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0388d46926---98493176306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37590669385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d0227971a---katiximovutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu1cb5evvfo4h44pvrcv9dic5t/49663724365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gmeehad7jo32lvrd5a9j37h8v/kosovifipugowobuduliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/paminoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/zugozurimugizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0c8a3928d---12323562436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/soleminim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbrq6uvuj92j8jts7htrqibhr5/35408534488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EA 10256 bytes
SHA-256: fadfc6a5c269aec1e109732453ca4823fb0f212e2922b4038aaeac3d4cf2fe3b
font_01_sfnt_off0001001a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001A 16904 bytes
SHA-256: 5cee5f6dd74355daa1c88419fe9af9ad0e390e03b99d239f15b16f2ccff722eb
font_02_sfnt_off00012c11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1