Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2c88f1b565c1fdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c9c5b27cfb3c7544138f4466bb8c5a16 SHA-1: 05c7e3099525c198f4384ea4f9b0dda579afadbc SHA-256: f2c88f1b565c1fdc8a7a7784f5be1d390337144d23c851a53f0191c927014036
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the heuristic findings and URL analysis.

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://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2965e5c8ebef2584a957fa7fd83f827/gorefifi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/57096366986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/at6b20pei4vle4sssko7b316hk/92980381527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialgarden.ro/userfiles/file/37741839172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/bazoxofiwekumiwexexifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/22451508448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/14138688213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopinhome.com/ci/userfiles/files/bopejojojunidikufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/livalujufufekakidagufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinevay.com/upload/files/walab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizatilojunuvojedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca5034c991---95058255906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bukopuduvinimoroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f531b001c78---6685573112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc1ocff1auquhqbinaj1h5klt5/93311786122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/guzemowesopugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nvfje9301b4heto3dgmv9vscf/gedutugisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c47cab6be7f873f6c343baf20e19c21a/lopuzubufexax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab16f8k2etde1gbhgl457h02g/kunanowuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768a2c05841---3427459880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac797b1703c---zewapomelesepomumobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45511a7c21---87827564848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a76982a9ea4---46343142916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/lubobudutosetaniwatapolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=convert+html+into+pdf+using+c%23PDF 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_off0000dd2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2E 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 662cd2b0d4dae75b9c72b558c1c8a44ea964e5ab16cd89af691804bce4870f80
font_01_sfnt_off00010de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FC 14412 bytes
SHA-256: 669754ecb2f8cedb381fe7ab41b18bed709460de476df2074461704bc9623541

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