Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2bbe7bd7d7ac2a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-30 23:38:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b97b040d4e132e148f0ba3efd04c8278 SHA-1: 49f5f34b71bd79b77d871f867553bd48b6f3770e SHA-256: c2bbe7bd7d7ac2a38c34dcb1671d81d6a5dd17582ec0e7f5831619d3b979257e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to host or redirect to malicious content. The embedded URLs, such as http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608404881f143---rawofajokewo.pdf, are likely part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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 https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa42c23dfdd---28396838054.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d0c35b251b2afccf6676147c79e2875/40314162109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f36a275590---ruloxolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a988c944bd5---pejodajejejedavuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/rasutofedibolesafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrve21s9kkckrp7idmpvttfjpt/noxovorifeferij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/tekinozujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9d73439de---wijedetada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/xasawafifuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/92824244639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7e2d57496cbf8e1b1aed5e91b59d5c/kefutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/94504774236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/makakemagapafimavaxoduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608404881f143---rawofajokewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/742048402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steps4cancer.org/clients/a/a7/a78c374070a178914b502abaf3db82b8/File/ropojasizebofatitililo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/67129292447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebecelectrique.com/upload/editor/file/40998486972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3f8f7eea6---silukifufijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a6550de9f---38805084389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5a799428c433824f1e5bb598a4bc41/6348544981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/66676352527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solo-enoant.com/content/files/files/lefidurifefovumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210526122703775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9efaf44daba75edf9056410f16383e68/jekozesaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+kiwi+quencher+from+tropical+smoothiePDF 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_off0000f626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF626 11160 bytes
SHA-256: b7081494ca0700541e9088ecec870e1ebe21c658a137e4eb46d70d0e80e81538
font_01_sfnt_off00011004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11004 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12816 18168 bytes
SHA-256: a9b9e20c444038f8fb732c78b84a1bfaa56302398359ada92c2acb026b6a0419