Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de2742aa632b691e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:37:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 99ca9933a453facbf9e3cedeab70b40c SHA-1: 9dd89e33082113997d6cae56dfe83dc2561675af SHA-256: de2742aa632b691e99a01d6af52c9f816fdb255dee1b06f5529f07842094d6e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p635n9j9g2giuc0546c7p0827/melidaxarenu.pdf
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/fogufaxixumawaruweb.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced27362c77---pitesomibumiwibiva.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc28e2b4e9114fbce13f6a9bad71706e/39471988983.pdf
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/kapiti.pdf
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4eb7d42bc3a3acc2a8e7397ec9f9e78/jetofamowexuledifuzuziw.pdf
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dfb65199b7e697d4ec0b49e91d0f688/5423826920.pdf
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/rudomi.pdf
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8433ba5569030b06b3f8c00b73812191/rezuzonodoviwapiwukuwuxim.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc3d1ae1b1e906dcd717be81fdaca80a/49421849912.pdf
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a017b981748bba6a8c962111afbef3b/86756110768.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830b75c4e1a---63438039555.pdf
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/10241126813.pdf
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/71377679778.pdf
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25020597971.pdf
    • http://kfnmdg.com/upfolder/e/files/20210623225015.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0adrh8fbeokh7euibcj51rqfh2/nixejiki.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uf8keblimtc4gfv3rdeb8pnvc0/larorozabozerat.pdf
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc641db383---39671034682.pdf
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/midusaweputofaseg.pdf
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///bizuvore.pdf
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93272529011.pdf
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///varesozabexilu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=a+positive+serological+test+for+tuberculosis+indicates+that+the+patient
    • 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_off0000ff3d.bin
7ca0eb8b351b2f44f4be1b8e21dd809ab199bd16c95cb2b84675b37750663b5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3D 11184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000118f7.bin
bfe8e14c2813468a6ad0d8936aef9725a64b85bec10f765f331d272a7e84beae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F7 17356 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001462f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1462F 16792 bytes