Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df2cdb7c40d48a22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-04 05:42:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 38de8b4738f7bb63a62d67cf8024de3a SHA-1: b8dc26080d83711690f96d9e76b0fe87a9ba4728 SHA-256: df2cdb7c40d48a225ba1e94cf28cdc83624dc948edfa1e106ba921df48f545e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a redirection chain designed to deliver a malicious payload, likely for phishing purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da23e10fd9bab1186159e5560e9af5d9/25870954510.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents//files/naximejefejosejabafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/37259934329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186635c312c4154ae589bff1c3fe0f67/zofelipidivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/73850022358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejezivegafibobatotakemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/97252727002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t64jli2k0eefs08tado7ij96lk/ropowuresoluzibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eb4548573eca0cf993b327d56de0953/xetafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ec87c6039---31623494259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd9e978b6f---47188469574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c563617b5cc---92565032530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97b166f04c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/rifajusanudunedipajodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/26190263304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1e8f9a61e---ruxosaluromoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c187501db65---17941380895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///44982006277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/sarabuzavatuluweteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff4aae2c1d367d399d824f108ab67a4/dubedopovarazum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/rerowuxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/62718515922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/91294812600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07tvelvge90hnlknsmekpr0olb/21739718742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=la+biblia+en+hebreo+espanol+gratisPDF 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_off0000da8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A2 10628 bytes
SHA-256: c5a6d8847a186348c3efade8b53a11e73b8cfce8f3323e62aaf273c2172b13cc
font_02_sfnt_off00010aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA1 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 7ba72b6f58cf9863ff9e7dbfdcb5163de644017e3048f1d660f9c74810c9663e