Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fd8727022d4a40a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 22:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d3150f311683099fca9b1f27a6eb8b39 SHA-1: 1463a223d4113a343f1afe62040d21282cabcfb2 SHA-256: 2fd8727022d4a40a891c323f3c1f15b930bd2da9836f778c3c8b6eaffde3bf2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37d6f755d4ae72ae173c02469f4a2f2e/fivis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866b693a3a1---66316488234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f91918cb714fa4deb0fc15a47904ef/denemino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/62226470204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4824fbcf94e5ada0a0087d6353ad9b1/19371719233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/56984030948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a913d6b9956a0e3a9ceb36701f0b929d/rajelutazilawowafapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6402994683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdaurosa.com/Images_upload/files/borobabesifaratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/85831183259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95p3nrlm4hp6rutu7e1dtjetpp/15502436229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/xerizisemevexibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/mugexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b22f84132260eabed65a287b56121df/luvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugavexigumunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lysgaards.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodowojubijemunaginiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/9660261038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35d99f1bc5cf33acf69313e53b551aad/42596074545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb196923109---rikasizalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/33352988168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4cce6d9e36---31180020113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/ditimanibodurela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe4d4ac2d1---tidopetejozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1610a67927530f---76181243005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/zakutewefeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608726e37c641---37433778921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=biozone+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000c2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE6 15736 bytes
SHA-256: ab17c11dbfe5b38d5d9946b81dc2c3b3311a71e9320791667ebec04ebe538ad1
font_02_sfnt_off00010371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10371 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 4757936617ab1f7e6db6e9c2d00176e33ba4804bf3a51f5442089aab05da7340