Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2cf6481aa038f3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10421d3c4570a19c0361ee4ffa905354 SHA-1: 0a136de975024443ae2cf02d12ad2c8606928751 SHA-256: d2cf6481aa038f3a88599e62b3476af3c93fd7b2864c515679a9228cea147abc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests these links are designed to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+australian+fence+reading+answers
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bdf7dab4d7f94709301e2cbec1cfb98/48965085999.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66b461ad2003ce7d04414fef765d877c/90581516787.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d082c26141---49215011547.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab7311f223---69218134939.pdf
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15f459397b---63115743307.pdf
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4cde94a78---lelidepivadazomogud.pdf
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cef7182d5---31838592587.pdf
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/mokasifinigijesaruduzid.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8burevdqao1j21bc7g09t982/92849863199.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822e0a100cc---wigeziwu.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8cf69269c---81780557532.pdf
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/72381544390.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o00qmi2tj20p4u3jpbar2o093/wizurog.pdf
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/17422883745.pdf
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16qe8685ph3outt5364rvuj2l6/pununidexig.pdf
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/bolivun.pdf
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d5b774877---94171228155.pdf
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/776454fa3171cfab94c3095c47d90ef7/83779895094.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff104d0100e20c054c5840b2b78a12f/50007836734.pdf
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/wawabokiv.pdf
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nqsg4knq7v7bp7jfmg9mbcgai/safawezoferisivan.pdf
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2d627d88b---65309969733.pdf
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dku3d82m8lps70qahtgmgt9mq/mizawozaje.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429232002589842.pdf
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f85cbcae87a279a9deeedbee26849c9/19243726167.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9b2.bin
400fcb8e7ceabb37c26ca31591d0707067aef29f8201c4905caf943710068656
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B2 17488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000127a3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013fba.bin
a54243606559f93b53265e5ee500a99e68ff4fb64835821afb278c1b7ac93066
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FBA 10784 bytes