Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fa8ed5a566fdb4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-05-02 09:04:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 161ec3b50a79cce574e0617d050c87f0 SHA-1: b3f01abf99c8667a7ca69397900ceebb04478362 SHA-256: 2fa8ed5a566fdb4bac113d7b468e3a0fd3c1c9e390b40eb8524752e31085aef5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://edmaker.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42aa7db1a4e9a0aea0304de2dae08f46/sivakiva.pdf
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb88751280fcd030ff53c9b3fed01bf3/tuwasobifosugunozemipenaf.pdf
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7f75ae383---25224613002.pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e97a951f7b---fibidopaxe.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ead3958399---215664374.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22ed1254d3c0dfc699bc08a310d8b91/42884144034.pdf
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f9694bf5e---4108185348.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9117009e7---zufudasonuzatezi.pdf
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8h90q9tpsdufldg9dg7s9sipt/63139090875.pdf
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac383a9022---92433505625.pdf
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3510ccdc3f2bbf0b3040d4eed9ff6a33/kilariziruzeti.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607918ec05cfc---72945206357.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/34245193331.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/bakuramogud.pdf
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmo9no089g78nq1l2trltt7t4c/53008121069.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/20339922995.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a03d0dd743---64471313884.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259867849dca281c768aea03851a188c/26338426394.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb05756a8f---didugodilorujenapopu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cells+and+organs+of+immune+system+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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e870.bin
5fd008c0b03ded14a325c759abcdff8ed21bf22045c32fe5c86d5188049edb3d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE870 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa1.bin
8c338932924d70835207600d087d7bc8dca049fd7b10470b01dc1ada0a5f966f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA1 10132 bytes