Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2dba48c5e94a4e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 16:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 24258a9a354f00af741ff9820b4000b8 SHA-1: 1bc690a90387f66ee92bf6e5bb7d26a51e939ea0 SHA-256: c2dba48c5e94a4e2025750e9bade8c68f1acbc23f48a977408f31219cbd35cc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Static analysis revealed numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5e236324d---sibimalamiga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.com/zdjecia/file/nixusiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/62936991314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c04d597a1a57c7bf9cb8b80835cd64/39536712107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b91e768577---wijuvamujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/85818293642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-net.it/file/37109374432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210724_010355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/bavukogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluelakehomestay.com/uploads/image/files/xibimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef0e7af295d9574abe4213358288b9c7/20328359240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/neliwubutujoxizemoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705ab713b94---ginixewuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e290af935---ganibixakomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b32f418214c2d95caca586dadff844a4/tibevilava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83743b53ab6d629d7b20f639ecb25431/49073357241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/faniseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705a4a6e8f6---35127474562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148b97473868d13f0ec54992875db63b/51827741527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a9474a0e8---belexupojimuxofuseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b4821e4a0---deride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56ec9e9bbd---95737013495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+msw+logo+commandsPDF 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_off00011225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11225 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A3C 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 7a96728ec0436c8c4ca0d188110c3f2db4bcbdbb658409e04a97cfd057ad8729
font_02_sfnt_off0001428e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428E 17784 bytes
SHA-256: c124cbd22185fc506b5337d2340074b959042d8eb30682aa3360ea3fc0b60575