Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fa48f12450cf15f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:10:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b799f66a0e3826521f06d9facb3e45c3 SHA-1: 4cff4b7e3b42528d9bc4539ce52f0920e2dd1d9f SHA-256: 2fa48f12450cf15f21a57e01aa361817851f9b60d34f53924d45ba2539a98f9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, many of which are WordPress installations using form plugins for file uploads. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d0383b95e---1469017966.pdf
    • https://bmat.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/zipifiwan.pdf
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9a0fb0282---6607359565.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tuq1kgposfd8ka8rqb8k60fahh/bujugezoxujivaka.pdf
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo1t46dvj9fc2fnsciq34v3qt7/60797329063.pdf
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/76704755146.pdf
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bfb589f6a---perizuzimixebakomutinumak.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c58304900af6479172d7938a338d94f8/wepevimabumi.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6augm3l8g8p7o2585luk97gtv/22827400457.pdf
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f203689d76f19d19a0c5d582a5bfa7d7/9807537960.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608a60732f005---sovazimulexesa.pdf
    • https://scheidungsrecht-best.de/userfiles/file/konidowozidiluw.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5f4b35612---dakurosiledifow.pdf
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34df38f91a1117610c2c3c51bae469b4/jukufegaduvaguli.pdf
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2ac53e12e84961510f7ebc96f00dd71/pirap.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609416fe4a95d---72351817893.pdf
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/1072134720.pdf
    • http://pettwayfamilyreunion.com/clients/39389/File/71336890544.pdf
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44d96cc92f41bb52e73fb2aac07bd647/54578561535.pdf
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/gixufadutosolipuv.pdf
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/datijakudasalutiz.pdf
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bir6f92ei9ep9eb7sennmdh5t9/xawabif.pdf
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c225e48935e9ddd61bbb269c384758b/3170136936.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82a32749284c28ac25e70774d4dfa47a/kojatarolikevo.pdf
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4aa3ca807d---latas.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608193e03dfbe---rigimanojid.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/15098654083.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=numbers+in+unit+form
    • 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_off0000be43.bin
069c3de80e13a5f3e6993cb5a26f539af0e92464ba5564670f0eed65bac30230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE43 16256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8af.bin
a8c9057599647ee4f7d7dfa4d6a889b5e1fa7153520ffe101c1dd35c394ca4df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AF 10384 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001002f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1002F 16792 bytes