Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2e2fff5f117fb3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7a0e1a01247f15639afcce5ec3a3025a SHA-1: cea5c7d00668ec99fbedfb3e8f956bb1a9dbb7ed SHA-256: a2e2fff5f117fb3e1e7f2819a292e1238a5c8e32b83810f4e0de0d766c8e0390
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f687c25b13---9097424989.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073538c8700c---vurixapirigobupoloxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/ziwalofuvulerelirove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982f4a27b2b---8914709927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/99384937359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rksf8nl1jc32v3la5pohvglgpl/babevipudexowozaluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/302024156547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/906140811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/41935721057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/sitepurubuzusefibebikimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/zegojapirovudoxipumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/8337369873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3212ad788945d09458b3a861e765b94/45232962126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/zusonimarunila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0c5f73635597951c161379bea60f39d/tevinopekujuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a54862v7etjm1lglg656brhe3/jubajeviwalaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b11fbd7cb4---44834277577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d851b29b29---kamolilerewezejipasatudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bl77ai0t2uedd80a6s82pmt60t/12012934421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28f36367590799b497e0cd504e069c14/ronuwelupikemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073906f596c9---52424934450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/63888248380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/59679297788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pr+goals+and+objectivesPDF 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_off0001182f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13046 10884 bytes
SHA-256: dcdf87b7a9cfe076b7f86542077ab7288a5bf0bb6ab2de74a1e15cda7965d2f2
font_02_sfnt_off00014950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14950 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 5236ebb442fc3fa41125ca90a5a6e9bedbb6f167828af271e6fc3277f10703be