Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb2ea7b56cd2b644…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:20:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2eaad08b11f478ecd409ae0dc7c72a9e SHA-1: defdf88b454a376b6ad8f90dac6978ad2c99c627 SHA-256: fb2ea7b56cd2b6441ca7a87e857a8259b8060ee0d896b40a77c6fb67000d78f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cheesecake+american+style PDF link annotation
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8de97938f8062c6c98ccecf419757b8a/6660151133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09d9521768b28654e66cb609ebab9181/73187988443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22294dd1c749bb671897b6eee6e08e38/803011822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7a60dqdtmnneebd29tlq35n0j/perelebimawunoruziwutevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/kukeroxijuzixafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfb082b8d2c---33125529736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/48355936473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c089896cc54---botifexosufititujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/pudadufuwemibelixesado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64a2ab6689---27658983156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/90621836303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10bb3mfjs97c305btqhfiu8vfn/43571618467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/94256750908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9614e5bf1---13352223080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tappowine.com/file/tubiwarokoxinubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba052d8f2f0d1f63b4f1162e465a879/begudasinizolivaxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27gj8o5hpclelre7ea5hrm7b4e/70945045307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokesifofijakefolalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe781b9016922f79a985314138fd2a6/44539953721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84d7h2270k06g88ralsg1hork0/luzuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/3478661046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/jitekutibexolukimubilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608606ee482ad---tidibujuzesiziwisiweba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/72123993771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CA 2284 bytes
SHA-256: a849f89a0da2de3dda096ffe7668ea8a0c33f3b4134308b550d17187fe1810ac
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF7 19836 bytes
SHA-256: aaa254cb532130c5bd8bad0ca439563bf8739078f3454da72afb3f51b3ff7327
font_03_sfnt_off00013fb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FB8 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 40f5be363c56cef9a344d60fddfe55257192b09bb89ec797e6f417d6a07db504