Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2464967867743fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a645119451ea0f92dfa19c733ac81786 SHA-1: fa74db0fdf62135ab314b1c05bc6e8140b1a9bb9 SHA-256: c2464967867743fbb96f3a5f02e0c3508c8efdc8e14c8eb82bfd80b64dd23920
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is used to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly supports its role as a malicious redirection tool.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=79+mm+to+cm PDF link annotation
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86af86041c---90268471346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/newumixinelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evq61jd02soq0ln54dukp6qsf4/91014110928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50da3a67b841ab1dec91b8d85c06fccd/78091272131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/lizesadukovonokawufaxazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4242859ee6ae71ef6b6d7ae05d3d028b/sasawidumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/dososanovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/lukurosuzonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210606203421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b7ec60a43---ruzufolike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/71255580460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad77f9e90aa---wovumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22535571885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ts8ga07t59mavtoq0r4uck4v80/48227502320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df9d99907bc---wasojikawipavisexowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/balogifuvedelutumojafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/bujatularuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5fc5a150d76069cfc18aa4cb9ab59c3/rapumizabovifuviliboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03e858f3597e771add59765327352c9/dimivijafuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5b5902799---bifanugesinirijerasavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/zizisilore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806b5f1610a---rakegusawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/51499667099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736a7b721f6---tesasosero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a215eff3cf391ee651b9ecb62f6e4f9/dilapudizalat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE667 9708 bytes
SHA-256: 1b4bf7b4cdf8b1157ba8e884f1290c2c9185ad6f93a5e0c1dc74f44f2581fa67
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C0 19168 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac5bd3eebde049599c5cf35c506ced017268d22adbda8450db849ef5391fc7f