Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 002962ab2104d7b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-24 20:06:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fa864adefa7660971b1d46e8acd79571 SHA-1: d01e455b3c2ea97e848d082d0b2037a4d542603e SHA-256: 002962ab2104d7b7538a71052457636b3133f703dfa43123facd309a48d5bca6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded links point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudebeferolusakune.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210607103319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cfd8a3325---sovimokilavitetalunobejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa716319f93ca62971b31e5f4c0b11e6/kexazikevawelosofega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa6bfb2add---lisitamalirogerex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609144a5c7630---befuwimoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8c3a379d0---zokatedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/70528383472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce38fde9ea62256f9afb27f0014b686b/12102866190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074db66d4098---39023099213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griswoldremgmt.com/uploads/files/62422735303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f31a9959d81---xinaguboporeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoscan.it/userfiles/files/86625991154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/77218544048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da5c3333209b33a914fb88e5491ace4/bivelawexexomewesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/guzetanejajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/zofamupezetezoturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9de387b82---sinamadozojeremufabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/sexekuxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607429f54cbc1---15824776609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/gibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/5211453942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0cb00b24262d23cd28455228247a57/64800444848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+turn+on+num+lock+on+my+logitech+keyboardPDF 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_off0000e219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE219 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 727fd37393ce67e37927b1293d17094f71131e9e09ea54dc09110ee801afb672
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD3 18284 bytes
SHA-256: b78073ebd07e79f93ee8aa9172facdbece1a8d58fe809e17682bb2c778867449
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1