Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c2df6eb6cbca97d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:51:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a2f15b502c54688d1c430a9c3bd85618 SHA-1: 26959cd27243bd8d0b98ebeb690708edf7aecc80 SHA-256: 4c2df6eb6cbca97d9c308c0128314842a1e2566786454783e4686bc852a80691
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. One URL, http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a861c1422fa---15970131225.pdf, is specifically identified as a compromised CMS upload link. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a861c1422fa---15970131225.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/76778073148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/21288526246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/80430926324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a56021a7202e55858ba9b2dc83f5d40/2232640034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74856190084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/bapijasiwutanisupogusuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/nitajofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2c03f97491994ecd2130089c2a95f1/18546531064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/gutomuxeradaxoxepoxudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/75409350596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/77402282178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/43293078317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/2463412325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etyekilovarda.hu/userfiles/file/78418209095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed54407de90---3486444855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/nokepabesonowozaxaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/48407606800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/10493283895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///76777490799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+manual+nikon+d810+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000b505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB505 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD17 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 8a4eb713512bf07d882e2199ad942fc58138816650d73e3d0682374ac129ab2f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D3 11540 bytes
SHA-256: a40a6b49b356be9cc73e5b14d11a4ba4e7c40c9d9e516fabcd6f7ba847dd5c0b