Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e266fda3351e800…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-25 02:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e32d38d9bf10cdd8e01aaa59c2edd389 SHA-1: 728389130abc7b6277a5e5f667d4b73370cb4a76 SHA-256: 0e266fda3351e80088d5ee1664610f5d7628b0ca0b659cd16787510cdb31b412
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate that the PDF functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The primary IOCs are the URLs hosted on these compromised sites, which likely serve as the next stage of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e62fd460499---55830841204.pdf
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/44848199795.pdf
    • http://fedoro.ru/upload/file/juvasonuwigabidolexut.pdf
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/lupek.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/624e468d17bff5dd9050b2f852fc5c95/13671755559.pdf
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40960157aeaa6908dc70d454eae59ec8/posimutaluvujaxum.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d69a0497a92---wonene.pdf
    • http://prosquash.by/data/41864115795.pdf
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/7929254910.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942dac5cf8b---tasotujide.pdf
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d032e75e8b8---54027460916.pdf
    • http://watsonwilliamsreunion.com/clients/82103/File/79038587807.pdf
    • http://vishalaholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37347060771.pdf
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/xetuvemavi.pdf
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/45921147958.pdf
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqtvdhdqq7nevgjsiucmh9tlt7/rafufevopinimipom.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fca93f25b9---47612717046.pdf
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/tibipimozapalim.pdf
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/vavudozelubidoruvus.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i836le6hvia1r4595047banvvi/15829982898.pdf
    • http://camptagola.com/clients/66689/File/gobekigud.pdf
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/pigisofafufaxu.pdf
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/20648434169.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4206972d2e---jeturidotevi.pdf
    • http://diacritic.org/travel/app/webroot/img/files/68772059509.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+y+la+orden+del+fenix+ilustrado+jim+kay
    • 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_off0000e2e8.bin
c42aaf52a5c8e5873a61c2d6fcc1ac595db7be9b321b93895bc8b38d4e235dc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E8 17348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000126dc.bin
6f37a9c9bb1abe1c978c8b802d020401ba7c52c1fa2477b04305f0d468765b99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DC 11188 bytes