Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fad5d25f56deaa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:08:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ca8d93d99c81280b5821de623eb262ee SHA-1: 72dd95f83a203305c58146cc571c30b735c5cded SHA-256: 2fad5d25f56deaa97c920efde1232975993d2aeaf10c9c19878612ad529511c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096095251f43---62455982956.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90f70e7d5389e7d21461343a055aed2/vizolikodavotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/27603631915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/19133060307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/kubowafeluxefama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalitas.es/userfiles/file/zupedonilesosafuvizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekvatorbl.com/userfiles/file/xexitesijuxoxamigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gjbuyerbroker.com/userfiles/file/87608120781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161164eda2299b---zoziluviviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efed61da9e---sefezeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/26906731512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e488946f4---36174087669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb228d81be---parinosisuwefovinevedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916a38b9127---18950641229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jgj5jmvo7uo96k65ag6th2v06/bibegurewisixibezebanike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/13607167162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125e92f83435---zosupefibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/57701420256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokocurry.gm/userfiles/file/nunonuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tio90pncga476nlehb23g700s/32332265014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/goxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/teliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=coriolis+effect+worksheet+middle+schoolPDF 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://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_off0000db3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3B 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 04ea0c4f821a09183de7a3e4ca98a254c811bdc5cda8e159b58eaf0c25cedc2a
font_01_sfnt_off0001079c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079C 10684 bytes
SHA-256: e15ed8b322f619fc7c934869fadfb576fd7ae3d99b73855bd591bea614ad20ef
font_02_sfnt_off00012032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12032 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1