Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2114cbed70a50243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 05:20:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2319939f45dd0f9fb3b7315628de82e4 SHA-1: 1477c86e5f811c032422ed27c37b7f38cfc6ab36 SHA-256: 2114cbed70a50243e60e5d913f4d4ad390657d932c5d01285b7a7acf299df0a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on various domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a tactic to host malicious files on seemingly legitimate but compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427faee27a8---41674642609.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904040449177207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/musagigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/26471253091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/zoduxusujadamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forumts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40105705756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145df693a77a---73100736123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankifoto.com/uploads/pages/files/zejotarogudarowolesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/71223890784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrpressconsulting.com/UserFiles/file/56944470957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/40359623446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_E4F55293DCDC820D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210906223007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/biwemuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e7a9418fc---24133609120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bidaduperirufefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietucmould.com/img-vietuc/files/dovowozerunojanuveduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjtvina.com/Upload/files/weraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://law885995.com/upload/fckimages/file/kenipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/xizikuraxubetubunuseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tannhatviet.vn/upload/files/59457940304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenangheli.vn/public/files/somapavojivitojevugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=rick+and+morty+season+5+episode+1+onlinePDF 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_off00010799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10799 18920 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3ef7c2b547795eef095cedc7efe4c8326eb3ced4a3e247fcab14a4b48e93f4
font_01_sfnt_off00013893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13893 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000150aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150AA 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 2c6d74fe5738ae48c5cf0ec92fc5cfc49de5ccf2ea5ff664da04ea74be555b35