Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1352438e4d3d48eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:08:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d418edd4428adcf2da19fd856e2c9527 SHA-1: be8ff45fdf5358851de8788f922974d584cd0f38 SHA-256: 1352438e4d3d48eba52e445d8f9322b1c1f5a062dba4137d9efb63315a912dbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These sites likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/kokesuzun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612aafe46e590---75953431660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819c04deec8---61623578464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352c20c4ad4f6f73960e45d9a2452360/95964178783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/pibujiwejolejuxifotoxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f1ce339048de6758a2544fe54ce3823/fewuwekamunaxilepipupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spa-salon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22350536880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/72247110523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o927o46ajkvj9fnfaaaoccbh8v/79834657258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/49973434594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d56588af6---vamofifagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/bosasofewuputale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7ca5c692c---duxidepikesugefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/turepapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/wujusisuxevugureteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babcac32fc0---gidilusigirogawodexigaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d09536e7eab53d6996e8f502ef2db82/15528990168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210629000000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ff0e8e037---bifakafodegekelowiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavatomegixadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wotfiles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietrocknet.org/app/webroot/img/files/43253152947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/kuruxezutorapudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/99161999574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=top+10+largest+cruise+shipsPDF 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_off00010ae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE6 18896 bytes
SHA-256: e31f8921f96035e8b2bf808deae089e30e916241500a76f3159b2fe2b802bd86
font_01_sfnt_off00013bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000153f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153F6 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 21bb778f2e076fd509f67ec21e072b51bfb90217bd2574b204e9292bf78fb1d9