Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0292612e73ced640…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:51:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a6e285568a189e184ae6d45f8e6d8e39 SHA-1: dc460b64f418efb05edd37ca0f47bba2524b1adc SHA-256: 0292612e73ced640ee287cdec37ee3108649a6990076969df237a1ba59d3ed02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the link farm structure and heuristic firings suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hausdergesundheit.net/userfiles/files/rapudigabeponezudu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/wivufopogazewibidukokudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://genarchi.com/data/temp/file/bemerikomubegedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/jogegerebegekajuzawezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/1622026695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/2709204606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukugarebuliwipinezanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/18489062308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/nejilofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec5aa2ecb8d87b46d159f2de6f04a9b0/neragane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/tetevizajefurosabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210913022815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/4565086711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/2388388994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/nirevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/laxuromigalubirekobixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/bidibujizinufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mekunigamiganebegasuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c2c37b07d---57501170661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/60803089585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/50059025956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1631714279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c991341eeab986464381dd3b06338970/14079230602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.eu/userfiles/file/zoxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/newexujivutasejozurabono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=hall+of+the+wild+frivPDF 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_off0000b681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB681 16768 bytes
SHA-256: 51ea63cd57af8f2b8a6e33e44a43d6c3d423af2360b081c33511a923d7106cce
font_01_sfnt_off0000e14f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF966 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 8a662f821000dce5fb09285452bc9a5b1c182e787be6c14440dd5cbc1f4578a1