Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2d697a4dae5ccb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-05-07 13:10:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 81687a5d4d7680fb0456bc80a53be93d SHA-1: 6fdca4d978ea8a197e96eb4e6923d9c532e008f7 SHA-256: f2d697a4dae5ccb5dea19372bf221c9a40c63573ff7b484d21eabe84d8aa8504
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be a lure related to 'Manualidades de navidad del 2018', likely to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

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 https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a85be484725562eae5419bae296090/98842593685.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f24348605b---3114278363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1q2qrf6mmdog0jo7euttu0n7tf/98885244686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d982d9e14---1035966744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608602d52e6b2---77145304362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/55071143350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a221b9ddcc04a0541d0104f43c6665/12672510771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82335e643b5ff25d5d6a526e43a93e39/sidutipekaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cd8f6dad8---84848156324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6539a6e5585e34e9f555b804294525ca/didudakifuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9717e95f6bf1e3ec4689dd586aedac7/66991424531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f59ac5b852---51194733869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da1df99f48---xajifegewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d8ff2f445---xuzubupivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a0b7c1107---ruwujoridifo.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/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=manualidades+de+navidad+del+2018PDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE005 2952 bytes
SHA-256: d8b907802410e675ceca2784509e58a9dae2947c1b2ad43e3e0c02687eabed47
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA93 5308 bytes
SHA-256: f0186d8801d00bb2a9a874a09bd4eec2844c10008c210f0c46837ff1a758cb72
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC9 11940 bytes
SHA-256: f0aa9c010b093bac84337aea6b92bc67cb309fab249bda73361fd3c6cc4fdc24