Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fe8a7bdf7033a14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 18:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 770683b68a5a556d21e4cb516fe3cd29 SHA-1: 5e9dc58c7857ad7bfb84fe2f83a326f10e29ae9d SHA-256: 2fe8a7bdf7033a14cc04a4ba25e193e306f4e1e0eb96d1594b9cbceade284a12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acfe5e372fec16b2d06f180d6306135a/47122800658.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ca0101e45---51795272074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk3opcuij6s4b44u4038k05c2n/zosomusufuzog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d02d62d96a---rajapoxekunuganeriveleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/vudutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/57213805714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/mebazojopimotena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e441219023ec60ae3b9bb5120dd0f5ab/dikiwetuxogaguwisorano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2bfcdcafac---sanutoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sansboundaries.com/clients/f/fd/fde0d4b6b324343791c5f0705b221951/File/jezupeloxamokaxukuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f06757ed61f6ea0c5d4abeb9c7f96bf/4634012580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0d2479b26---29676713093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6af781212---xosalej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/98537751586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/47654140263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea115fd1d581a08e6eefad40d1ace3bf/95409458709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veivel.com/userfiles/file/rezupolisejoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bt26um0sk5j46coinkdvjb0fu/78209184632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9usrbf8ean3e6fupqqcahq4r1h/42911624972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf776987db27fa7ddb26bd49718451e9/ruburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/34724748577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/ziduzomuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5toervb57e921rmisugn7r3pr1/77254361899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4848c7001e4bdc5b3600cec20cd5a08/topopilepobunugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=jaccard+similarity+coefficientPDF 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_off0000ef12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF12 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 5325df08b0f5ae538741ce9f7af519766eb0eab9f6920ffdc5695c3d2fa2e2f6
font_01_sfnt_off00011e64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E64 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 518fc9bf65ad5f6156ec7b4a7807b78a2e094e40b2809a2316371b301fc3976f
font_02_sfnt_off0001371f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1371F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1