Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 114a2c161f0cc10a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:34:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a81cb948e582c23af23c3005ca16ab9e SHA-1: f88f21f18b72fea353b5ad35f8e7097d12b4b78f SHA-256: 114a2c161f0cc10afe3c7251952fc26882fe4571b60c9752ca2de55c66e8ac0b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, including links to compromised CMS uploads and link farms on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into clicking a download link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=block+craft+3d+mod+unlimited+gems+and+coins
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/26730255340.pdf
    • https://szelvedojavitasmiskolc.hu/files/files/juxejixubigipil.pdf
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/97294215651.pdf
    • https://tomaszbizon.tomaszbizon.pl/web/uploads/files/joweteborexavev.pdf
    • https://www.lucaslobker.com/minor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajobidapuwixegapipuwarok.pdf
    • http://immobilier-valence-agen.com/userfiles/file/povenun.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff451a3869---xomizujerifijamuxodo.pdf
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/gepogawu.pdf
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/fazitetipe.pdf
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jizosu.pdf
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5677386717.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338c6daddc8---kusabenagonilulokad.pdf
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/jesuxetud.pdf
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210908004944.pdf
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d62c92c7fdcd50ef7fc675920990c8/wezabadado.pdf
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/19036958796.pdf
    • https://hebatkeren88.com/contents/files/68525302311.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/40756425416.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de8cf7823dfd8f9b9b0572597aa5d54e/77086807944.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140eda76607e---sevemozovi.pdf
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/88151952379.pdf
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109120721246288.pdf
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/91228022239.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_off0000dfb4.bin
c1707741d70d280964979a9f77fe242f1ab0f6a3a4db6cf818e450bae065e6ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB4 11236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9e6.bin
130163c67b0b1df3498ce9ee95f852925b3756bd8b71faf3832b4384784dba46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E6 19684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d2b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D2B 16792 bytes