Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f8d51b125c5225b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 08:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: df8a99e238e187557ac09015fa8603fe SHA-1: c7d2faec8bdb1f7d5baae79516e03e556c46fef7 SHA-256: 2f8d51b125c5225b46e4785797faf087f1da75443d39dea771c3472224015a96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, a common tactic for distributing phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm structure is sufficient evidence of a malicious attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=estat%C3%ADstica+aplicada+e+probabilidade+para+engenheiros+montgomery+pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079755dc69e4---vubamuvovudefude.pdf
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/112b93897e6cac72ed49421918201c7e/79190782600.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6febc22786---dewosasefexo.pdf
    • http://denledmpe.com/upload/files/2897376393.pdf
    • http://agiteam.org/clients/b/b0/b0c4817036ef1cb73596cc935f3fa86d/File/3177603409.pdf
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/bamepotasasogewini.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9406370ec4---fefuzekavuzijetoj.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e29d0ee23c0a996c0622ee572e8ba9/98719901083.pdf
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/filuwevesafusem.pdf
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/87801843031.pdf
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_5BB0BF4F1EF92C04.pdf
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/3619132452.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e9d075bec---sopeluwogoxego.pdf
    • http://efeotokiralama.com/Upload/file/fadetedosupujopi.pdf
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a595444de2---wubazamotasudarado.pdf
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ckl4p50pe5kbi73c0ihdrag90/josagifuripanejovadudaj.pdf
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094990dba22b---54283503946.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb00da99f51---pefaxis.pdf
    • http://gibson100.com/clients/870224/File/87873452388.pdf
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/1926287115.pdf
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3a6a9e1d2e3253df20edb44e90ba01/vowuwopovorubiguxavo.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6dmo1svoru788td7np68af3m1/66372514100.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cb6825250---57359290774.pdf
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/facf86bc421ed030b6f1a9c009038bac/74004992744.pdf
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/72414460462.pdf
    • 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_off0000c00e.bin
832e5f572dd0d38483946dfd1114623b14f249cc223a2c23286b08e0629dff98
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC00E 17208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea64.bin
5182718aa164bb95ff7afa45ee8ee9da0970ab7aaf739fa567300891436b8b3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA64 11368 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001047e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047E 16792 bytes