Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2929eedc0d27228…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:14:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 63397aed31b11dbd3f203a1b9157cc0f SHA-1: 0239f50273403e118e93016ad9eab5c2d9647664 SHA-256: c2929eedc0d27228413dd495951616048a954b9c40e678a05941a8bc00dbaad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the URL heuristics and threat intelligence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7f494e5bc---bibufegevatipetesipipiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/lifotifaxodariwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/50738682522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d78b4c5a9d---31397510311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/pakixebizafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/66644948027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronel.com/userfiles/files/27055240699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb0a54bd04e7098bc5ef540d6879c2b/81254713224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senuponituxujike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021050302505973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e2d3f3264284dde88a79c6bb669b11c/dizofebegopotolivade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cno3p0ttnh6v7tji7d5hipajrm/tininoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/fabodoxunolapole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3df0b1de08cb23eb9210af08b14d4ed/titaxunusixuxazedadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/85454051047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e3llkmnclsbrjvc97226j8l5/mudepaxalozevita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/16387224582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33090015452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanxuattrucauthangkinh.com/Images_upload/files/11393549818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/jupozubasegilivajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/58966470252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvp6lelivq43b7lq525d0e30oc/bugewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fbf4db9643862646c6c1685739d6264/38553531462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/reduxomiwoxowawapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b93f4d30bc5b06cccfebbb82c4e61fb1/nuburitutixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+taller+chevrolet+sail+2017PDF 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_off0000e156.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE156 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 5d94515415509041c0b77de9549ab60535b1c4b85b3e1df7a17d44a07b15b678
font_01_sfnt_off0001102f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102F 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 039a228364aa4b6879ad52cfebf7d4b5f01de63b5a418be03aaec8e1599ba5bd
font_02_sfnt_off000129b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1