Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04ce251b2320f7ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-12 22:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 87da63a626bbf95ee8d2bfba5b020c9d SHA-1: e288856cd3da0ec48430d2fc790916ab980b53cb SHA-256: 04ce251b2320f7ee8f48dfa76fdcaea6b24b31b64598412e5fac008bc231fcc7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a tactic of using link farms on potentially compromised or disposable hosting to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=perimeter+of+square+and+rectangle+formula
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/xukajotimo.pdf
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/17947293505.pdf
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608414b99c86b---gimarexemaxukunataguvike.pdf
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc3232f54c7e1fbdafc33ce5e4dc427/23738518936.pdf
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/xixuzajipivakoxezifel.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebbd6ee9f7---gabibo.pdf
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/25916569075.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7dca6e4c7809ad7f749bbedcfb3b54/62832328804.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3f8f7eea6---silukifufijip.pdf
    • https://folklorebridge.eu/uploads/pictures/files/sinujabenagivuvevazo.pdf
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/18966104851.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/kirulixafozazoxodet.pdf
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/2409360053.pdf
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a4d14816f7bbcb320d7e1a8419871c/nobuxevodelu.pdf
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/60063088968.pdf
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/rukanofefa.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/59083219443.pdf
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608456c3648b0---90732438729.pdf
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/76777661452.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878c9556580---34599229950.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738c5733137---50457890447.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe423cb1e59d7f3c7ed28cb9ef3a076/womigobupavigipitowa.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16085c742bc2a2---dudedidebowumo.pdf
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/gebatufaputelaro.pdf
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/18181906424.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd8e.bin
c1acf68dc405a7bb07985baaed7b00acfd1960ab592a7650c4c8532195c4207d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8E 18128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010db7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125ce.bin
83c84b3cf5c4445408e27525a9aafd159d155b3fcbabe8663d1e2d75b9e0a7d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CE 11064 bytes