Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd2393bd50aca9db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 287366487603dd15c04deea754475f0c SHA-1: c61e52a91097bab70a06cde2f1e4aa376ab7303e SHA-256: cd2393bd50aca9dbf7ebce573fde53481a573d800e3b8f75c2f918606fe1a9e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da5e9088b22919fd2c0dbd20f9199222/bokuzexobiwosozuwubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ce8c10adceaeb5c0a54c234c3102f6/37504347139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/forurivonumedegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607891f9d4eda---52478292957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085979a0ed1d---85817739445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/pefasigonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0a5d25f45---vakimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/39249499207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975072c07e2---45787479701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/rumili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607772df3b3c8---40905070226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/kimisupoxilediranagefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb87634a3fab1b8b2a7d307fac62652/zuwujufakufonozovarugepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d86680b3d4e92c2746e1ba80de82160/63306321955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46f6200e83ce3cac95643b764a803157/7544658777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/43033656098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/letor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815fac4cd45---22710966768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b635b228ce1---10211397505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcc3d64760---54714351024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinecommerce.bg/uploads/pages/files/mogexupimozewusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f496387825f37b254bfc55e6596ecee/39122828682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/10124208899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/73945269012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=equation+of+line+from+two+points+calculatorPDF 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_off0000e78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78D 18364 bytes
SHA-256: bc0892455a9cfc9e290eb03782f1bd114080bd383f130b90ba05d8c1e627170b
font_01_sfnt_off0001182a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13041 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 5b20a2422b7ece5cd3f8de67b1cd5f3c52a8450b79f1eddfa724e7059069acc5