Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fad03402b605178…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 07:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 41093a83331f5a992acd298f7ac9501a SHA-1: 67d5eeb4bd540d87b2cc2215b31ef622e75a292c SHA-256: 2fad03402b605178390699527d33e4ef0dc94fc895b1b983fb29f1ac7a505ad2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, specifically WordPress. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to unknown or potentially compromised domains, suggest a phishing or redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d2610bf9f84675be8c3e5b52d99e9d/50307821762.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b78b16a27f---relatemobomiwakevuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/vovidabogenaxoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/tezupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b19864c8c8---vajafutezesuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/lawajapojitanure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7d32fd2ec8d458bba07f922cdbe599c/vupilobobopotuzotobumixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xinpayflow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamifomugakawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/wikoridosotetokolimobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdsonline.org/userfiles/file/mopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/36921780020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/17770783885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/maxomumuremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/58447246566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9e2e9271b---bewiwozalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/31680100280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unite-chem.cn/upload/files/75276815771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/91595101024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/fevezefugipokuxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inggeo.eu/userfiles/files/37615915303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84485848676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mupakofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=zombie+run+game+androidPDF 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_off0000f770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF770 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 4a08395e54a3eab2c24fa651aaa13cb6947ead611efebb411df7d88af3fbb4a0
font_01_sfnt_off000123de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123DE 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4a5c841b82749a17b642eff04f39658aa1f829c7accc90fb77baddaaee14e0
font_02_sfnt_off00013b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1