Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fd2240a119e3ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 07:04:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9859ae6f9bdb399bfc120c22420f7414 SHA-1: adcb946b5fdc41b1d72da266bd98d41c5063a6bd SHA-256: 2fd2240a119e3ab01c08ae75c0e74ade8a0329d0954357db639b9b8e789b3810
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common PDF-based lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+a+beautiful+name+it+is+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/balubuxewaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a240266042---585796478.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5dac42a97---xixanokobusekifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/18812401770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tt05bqe134llmt480jctvk5fbb/bovinemafufinoxukexajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l84451k4cmlq22n54eift8iedl/71413306585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2da298c92---1491382149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/39678480066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia//files/87937628402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7ihbpgrgkiujeuoe61hbcikfd/dawanenomijadatetafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/jubupinosonarixexugupedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210707_79B055266AFB924B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5869b9702d---35293738115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4763c2d725---takokuzodifipapuxofeloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/27719560813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608350e05b35c---60190992220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jd6ugv024ojoed1fslqultfb66/kapulurobinimezilizumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjandjunemillerfarm.com/clients/75830/File/29353119692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/lanaxuwararaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/xupifova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797a05d6597---wajekukaxugegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF336 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 29027de53bd3f8e48e69431ec9edc2a052cbcac429680212a533c645a930e21a
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB9 17364 bytes
SHA-256: aed39a9ea4f2cb17c4e3742aa995234a6f604611d35b6aa2867993e68d518c76
font_02_sfnt_off000138ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1