Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 185901582b12a02a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:10:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: be4717b08b3f94bf588214f43ef41643 SHA-1: 3eb6b21a4219d0d8d5dbc44f44b948295670cc1f SHA-256: 185901582b12a02a7ff32b37872e0c831969cc6e281479c7a87c2019babee6fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm for distributing malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host and distribute malicious files.

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 https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4gtlk7ntk5dhct9rdc1pqulvf/pusijizovigu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/xesuwafudiguteraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ghsn4vcdv4mqcr7a7ncpu348n/zutolosenavilerenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/11651495208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33096e143fe555564f46fee71bc51fde/2408045682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/tizoraguxamopodorora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/sarazizibomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021622195693684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/23853455627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/42405118889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxubafiwuvexovaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/31244668172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/66324244672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcobafl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mamuzubazuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37367d50752376dcf9a22c866af79d1d/77356407672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/55621314760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/86802474651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/34892186940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d23b13dae9b140bc1a4a37f66a7bce66/mifowelelelumijidupodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c05a93cace7---zoxejisemimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/25198987763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mramus.com/fck/imagesfile/mimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073gpb70f351e7rgktnnuk1tj0/ritowudakilimewuwubiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe8d879b4c2---gagopojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/12204066079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=breville+juicer+manual+bje510xlPDF 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_off0000db15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB15 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 2a27a4bcc574f47e995ba35af47c570f36ecd8d13cd912db31548d1436c25e19
font_01_sfnt_off00010620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10620 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E37 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 75b578f7409b1f726dc50a8e4bf708d0f7dc017523a347fbd1bf3c855ca5581c