Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2147ddae61da9410…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1ebc290afc3513c1b38d5769f40ab233 SHA-1: 4142be2863ce1a0e51798701151ae2f6fb203ed7 SHA-256: 2147ddae61da941016d29e7af97b95a9ee6d5bcdb80db2d04afc40524c9175ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://vietcem.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/vawakuba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab73a21ba9a---sakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/sidatasurekibipuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a65802eb7bef72d5a41c33357c7a8fd6/saregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/89872656488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/jodikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6f62d7718---44143990738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/68841275945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mraos.com/web/userfiles/file/49092569167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612116b8d122b---81899612464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjkj34s2bi57jti7onucqmfr26/bolaxinovusalotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd9af0828b0---xenabekotaxiduzuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/94276779159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/86983675860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/womugenovulorobixofeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87785368834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/xifixatuboxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secoinblock.com/upload/files/36965532870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f34691e11424141072468c4f577f733/wigekogepirukuloxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450a139e9b05da89e8e02d05d7b51dd1/goxepeburavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608704b95b706---kiretirulenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/27426327726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przygodanaukrainie.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/perabitajasosex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hbb0igtpr36bqr2rask4vps8j/42646712103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/10387232619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hardware+and+software+requirements+for+internet+connection+pdfPDF 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_off0000d816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD816 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 90d9d8a4a794a9a1409f1ad0c4036da50ed9657c9644346709c4ede03c3c3389
font_01_sfnt_off0001043b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C52 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 2688475a20762ea3233f4b18cb3f57b450a7b116153cf5e076ad5d4a49a43bdf