Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0234e224adf60923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dc55a1554eab9402eb7dd53fad20dc0c SHA-1: caae091bdc7f6fd1868855636fe0f1e2beba3c3d SHA-256: 0234e224adf60923c26622942c29c2f436e1a398b961192efc076c85231e3f2b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF, as indicated by ML classification and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The malformed stream length heuristic further supports its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves using the PDF as a lure to redirect users to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-2/20210802165500234308.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e60ebc692f4---nokovevovubewimusuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/30546036580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/muxoderarisaxumezepogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161188f1a9fcd6---15017364834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/75262399859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43919090987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amssnm5n1ckpkr69ruqbenf2a3/tomolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fdc5b93d5bd1b7cbca9e76132b8d2bd/93523941852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exporoaster.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/fikobesofevized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210901105237_0prs5t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvvvbbp1isrmnojmhs35mp9d16/dupegigarafidajovorugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123548f95a7b---samupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c74d9f3cdc---22688854530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/pabajelepokijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/zatusixibefedodapeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/rujelivonujamukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f655fc32afe08b668c209cd7f0100953/26714819911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/59097442460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/tefisijudawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126da9a7834c---degopotegafebedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/rimidila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/wixamubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/fimupudotegabetelaxezana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac5ebb1876---42765937614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/6085821695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+tell+if+a+function+is+linear+from+a+tablePDF 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_off0000cce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE2 17736 bytes
SHA-256: d762d4ae2e0dbb2837b525ac1afd2316c34bbbf99dfed375bb7f5b7ba7c0e046
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB40 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 8ea761394980f797190498f961998776975f04e141b5d958a4b39f36905be51e
font_02_sfnt_off00011439.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11439 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1