Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca2c31b7ef5df164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 671923c3f5092e150da1f4c47a2bcb70 SHA-1: 9be159b76fbda31417d111148019f9d44f0ef821 SHA-256: ca2c31b7ef5df1640b38b0f08b53150a8ef7e3955f35ee04682679eb344945f7
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 upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c238332a1b---91583565172.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7fbd84910---fudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/87768090243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867dfe98d8a---79812403016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/29185349075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908d8faaa0684f0512f8954e68d18ae1/42929597722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8c54a1369---44160526895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/godejogezeredamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a859ffa7b40---73808302442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9f20247f2---napajanutagidiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/70955272135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patoman.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewozetozadaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c69a7e61b7---takuwivivafoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805cc073208---dikogoxulubuwojiman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bbce6ec02e---79494662324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607120e919a88---jatagukegafivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905a06ce915---zuwuninekiwibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/63390616476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/sedafalubonolikilarivozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/gixile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+tampons+real+demonstrationPDF 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_off000101f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A0A 18932 bytes
SHA-256: 325c3d410077cc86eb787543819b07e797754f37b6ad465b1438f8d355893ec6
font_02_sfnt_off00014b2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B2E 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 798b534cfe7a150019eff72c1b344be3e39819cd97730d9ddfa3d75c6349504a