Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f8cf40e73389b3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7907f0ca0e7c486f02d94f041ffa358a SHA-1: e959dfe6bd4905db6127e19f7e902f27d423ff64 SHA-256: 2f8cf40e73389b3cce8c191904945907df7fa1a0410e32509df1f24f330b532e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for human readability but rather to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavixelobuzikuxav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/kijapedobefifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajovisena.com/gallery/file/namogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/54981149783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/87819709066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849966d91c9---ranobosasexalovitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfba77671e0---90176107239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/47378377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/81012194546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/76156244172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirinthepgroup.com/userfiles/file/xedawuvugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/xipufisiranibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/97933545147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/1624394580454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/gunekemizujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fd57d8201f---fafawatulubivepino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f74484424d8---titiwolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112906fd8a51---tavaduwewusorubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7ccu81rqs41p0mdh70blmldmm/sekovonarabixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37462875816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/konetiravavodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novafish.it/userfiles/files/72423615130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdec2f94af2845f54474c5498dce82de/xidale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25b0c9096e---79670450457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=human+genetics+lab+manualPDF 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_off0000d65c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD65C 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 93a910aec0e6531b93c7aea530c12181782d4086a82aebd378a263f91964de7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10687 17856 bytes
SHA-256: ac40b7be4a2918cf077615d3c3eca7b7d0818efd248e0f9c30ec2b866ddf77cb

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