Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df2422226d08c0b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:09:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: b0ef97060541ab38df5e4365b8cf146d SHA-1: 7793e642a49292ad91710a424ae0f64f803985df SHA-256: df2422226d08c0b88f7af3e8ddb7d69e0a3f1b6c364ecc61406f16507de07831
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://macroedunet.com/userfiles/file/fapubemokonalavujoju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899fbae938b---datixumufisibobagebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/vedorosogowaxuluzeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607126c56d360---77496532444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/suwinuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3585490f3438ab058773c789fb33144c/65897334353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fb820a3c3---11278870433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/denir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d34a70db13339b4ac637f43d027ede52/pavisuwukebuzamigovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/nejagijavopufulija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607818f35ab1b---20145118554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/83423149986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/lebidutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/zuvamumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/melet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210618_151534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/90930303223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggtt1r4nej8iob9f3o7orjf8u5/14769745971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210723_020019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c28c1fd633ded27fb343cbf4fc913ba6/bamijixanupixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ff7bc7c237d547fb92dcd04cf5c49c/jirusuvojirepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/30385191541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc70563fc2---77647845676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed3ea6f246---xipomopibisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bf45759f46c81aa0ecf060573d2ec73/gezefafekubigawuzodedaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=handwriting+practice+letter+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000ffd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD8 17012 bytes
SHA-256: c77c54792ab0a5bbbe7dc8766e83fab30f9adaa6acb35e8c0ca181a028ec44d4
font_01_sfnt_off00012c38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C38 10960 bytes
SHA-256: b9aeefb52d932bfbabe74e4662334c54f7fe8db813def6644f6b6c8c6d0a70f8
font_02_sfnt_off0001455f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1455F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1