Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f8125715cddca21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-29 18:45:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c25cd090a81ee237deeffe73731f0d38 SHA-1: b475e034c0edc743da2fd2e9bddcf5de2e8a05aa SHA-256: 2f8125715cddca21539084b7233fd85f7fedd630afdf0f050e438624d8bce25b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that this document is a lure. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ecb0b84de---81605968186.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/geiiukakb869qkoe2h95hkgvh2/32472111118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7e1346964a9d572e9ad84f789a6b07d/derater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/63739588984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suxotobipexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a880217c041---84095137846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/34052152918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/xovusugugeledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/99226394137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://614move.com/clients/4890/File/7963702227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhfangyuan.com/uploadfiles/files/54101938622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/zikomokaruxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mowuxulowoniputikexogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/jexenagisidawevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/69370664669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/renenimesiketavawazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610433095f2f0---kewenapurewebuvowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/72058291223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/56892221812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents//files/zimubitufukujebanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belv.ru/userfiles/file/42207231864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612691d47625b---57688262716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9c8d927242398ed1df248a966f691b9/57040794434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/pevetarelebipomojudinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/99469291385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/80088571202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/soladamivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=map+of+the+fertile+crescent+worksheetPDF 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_off0000dbd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD7 18592 bytes
SHA-256: c45b436b3ffa81baa8bd20c4f3cfbdc91425c897ec84abb907523127bc99d15f
font_01_sfnt_off00010c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A7 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 95a5599d8a69081a6c0ff62cd1bfb14834606e400162da1e318f09de81b74e9b