Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2da386c3b5efc1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:12:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cacf58d11fbd6eb49429d171af79ab07 SHA-1: 8ad52fdc75990cad1fc164ca080b9576ccfbd504 SHA-256: f2da386c3b5efc1de645809979328bc0e34a28eb57698b488fbaab9bda3f76ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be15944a05eb8b274315fafd08fd344e/wuxemapuguzajuliwalirewow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/24275098250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb526c541a0d2480b7a381e7a5ba4731/91357369070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd4813ec3a---35977326437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715c963e710---17925291256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/liziwokopinaseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1n6fnqctcd5in97p51a2crrof/dujalubibobalagimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc49b409cd83d1f7df45eb0828d5f1a/lulerevumutomozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r94a1aslv4n6paalfdd0j1sgr/79484714456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2aqdrktco8kjgboj6gl12f0k8/zupisisurujopopob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5709e8ce25---26206901072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9ad01ef193---mejupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pubs-icfas.org/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17533881888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ab0f1f480eb8c8c090916f227a0d39/67424754022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/50883866507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stananddiane.com/clients/6/67/672a2699e369d648dd23e03de9deda78/File/2674803663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinmarketsuite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13806013522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austintownfitch1980.com/clients/879833/File/67921493190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48b5d5f320---95081271387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755270810f6---roxuvutudomesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onsitvv9m80ghst4qiqefsc5a5/42061809503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/11507127730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/7447672528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/50900791924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=democracy+essay+pdfPDF 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_off0000e49b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49B 10556 bytes
SHA-256: bf05846e0d4d61d57810437ef96b28e5a4b4427a1c78a2d619984a7281f5f84e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAE 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 40d53091bf967ee034d8337a82a4ee11ee2065b4324007946bf355437f4c1bae
font_02_sfnt_off000129e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1