Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2d0f8e5a1ff9500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-05-13 18:33:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d77563d97323050af185adeee6958af5 SHA-1: 32544686e5f82da19e99b23a64d89ab26028d0a0 SHA-256: f2d0f8e5a1ff95003e8f004d8a77ced9363738caf0613f006841776ca2586c13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These sites likely host phishing content or serve as downloaders for further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f863524ad5---lexokegaki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/57092912444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c89625e30---3003681030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ee97e29cb---saxekovomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607069d9aa31f---dogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd857523963bdedc6c418d861ef9895c/28043540258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78095a17b8d5d1922e5ef91869b49c5c/vimosatudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/67118033137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c67cd54d6ee2534c5ef6624789b819b2/78385344052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ubakflrs7haf25ob2oov7om23/muwagaxajiserolawebimubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/1367529815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kan5u7fqp9bobrf9febio3qdtl/63684189784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/zesizenupirapumufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb381aae80451768589d05d3ffc147e/79726984457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852a876cbd9---50338759368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a64f037c20---dakurogugolokepate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/65301394078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7fb36ae4e---15708861901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=character+sheet+co+uk+pathfinderPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD42A 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 89e5a98661ecd78ccf1ab216e32dc44c4e968108fbeb2e1ac6bb8db2d9b4195a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BF 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 23ff2912213dcb1410510031a3127710778b05c25a5f5800fa971e620e8b3cea