Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ff469cb372f2fd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a1634967094bf4baa70bfe7c7ea77d2e SHA-1: d0995073786dc0efa0d9dc207967c80c4fc63ea9 SHA-256: 2ff469cb372f2fd5d038c0a07d8d4cec7281776c99981d19f88af80c1a6b41fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely leveraging embedded links to achieve its objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ac0bbe388---xodidozozenotopaxidogup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/nobudubomezevazerusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/terijofopujaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alajwakh.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/zitixodogupobedepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f589dd3b777c9d1cbbf813c75b65fc15/masiresopanab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/zadutiluzetuwazazuxejakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f68a757855---sameloberunudavunosidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/turowerenulojoxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210722125301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfccbb79c71---nilivabojegarojixozerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86418690a9d5b3b9fb5f8f6c085afbfe/93440353942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/39632231872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0flkmnj9cr31olejf6c5cs225/60340290883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/17637259874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/73723254672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/meforufowuzevodumikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/fapumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvcb4ht6j0ll8oh97lfkkplv85/jebomulumavesivajolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/xowoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/17422883745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri33igeaqfsutqisrkvv2q1bbh/14488250403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190fe58c08b95479cd195953295664a3/52335331346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/80549468215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/37104179361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/11914866833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fisiopatologia+del+cancer+de+pancreas+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_off0000da15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA15 10772 bytes
SHA-256: e3a5e15ed85f0ece2cc5f7b1c199dce74c1e97d9d8703e5c930fcee898c8eee0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CC 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 0157416d37893e90df28d3db8a126f182cf7fa2a4ae4ce0bda5680451204a6b0
font_02_sfnt_off00011f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1