Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2677faca3935248…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: edf07418e40aab68e58270b9ee86f3ca SHA-1: 3c578dc8f4d9ad3173cf702b4b69b643f01ad7f4 SHA-256: d2677faca393524851c138d7aef2c4e7e1c64a2e0f1a9d3ad0b4de6d810bb0b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fa57a55fe---20349919028.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/kubunabuzipewanuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021052605142273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/39284552610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/kefemikowiribip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730377690ba---kokaxejatofelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/zixavokidagujufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portsreunion2021.com/clients/b/b1/b1889431de095b9710a1303a3c619afc/File/62898557692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f4b720a3a64812f77929113f1be221/sudolakabolixemulajumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba91cb3aaac---47269462057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37325703425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270fc6qg6r17qfeempivae4r06/32849068731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989430807461711a9f5a5d12dceb9e73/donuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a042ebef5fe---91983506834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/11197934019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021051612455573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/92938096678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/14026243844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/53715472386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbca2d83ad7---sorider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43af42f6c4---10931052947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607becd9cd3f4---dopowaginoboxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dc2c63fce4d2d5b6b22ff8725f299a5/nuritowefuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06e11288b4---tadinuzolorefibetugifuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+quote+in+chicago+stylePDF link annotation
    • https://���www.scribbr.com/���citing-sources/���how-to-paraphrase/In PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE873 16940 bytes
SHA-256: eba9692fa07b6a1ac7b012cb08aa6ce429ea7901d5aaccec251ca71f34faf039
font_01_sfnt_off0001143c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1143C 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 9a241b695b8ce57035e93203d44dbda83131d54d617ce3ea0d91e8f4f9120cf3
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1