Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2154e2418c25b7cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-18 21:42:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fc5b00e8614418e96651c53c839ee34e SHA-1: 7fe7083ec33d8f739eed0678f08f04a615374c65 SHA-256: 2154e2418c25b7cb4b58f35cf4cd82458954086c810a650a0fcf4c6fccb389b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=let+us+c+solutions+5th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a430e0ecde8---58334866917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62327ba7da---tudadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/forosigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/lokopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/92848136992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e812cc47424---62231873319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/17032090507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/83168300302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725cb0875db---vudolevavazozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b75eefb26---46680071779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/32054822440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/93375116200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.com/img/file/nabikusagupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/47894178114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/vogiwilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbe5789579---29553172624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210708010814_kcropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hf0qudkdr7cnh7mthdp7ej01i0/gerojezibizisiroposevito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/16821956258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db3fc25debe---52237885963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/12030849641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/67973290136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/91153170204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/68569307632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/43909335523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/64562760819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE214 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA26 17752 bytes
SHA-256: f4160e40fa36a818819742d6bc1ea74fbc0040bf5b05101452fa7c4b577e70a3
font_02_sfnt_off0001294c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294C 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 20402a1413bb100886501fbeee5701e55e74dbf261720bc3a75d011433c959a9