Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2167eeef001ed4cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:42:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d2cad29199c576f144d325cbdd80a985 SHA-1: 3454015aeefeefb093d0b39d0efaaae5d658dc68 SHA-256: 2167eeef001ed4cd9f72173b58f00456effdae237ca6a96096157ba207f06ff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDFs, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br8pfk1kr5dfcpu9vsj37kc98v/27661450841.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uk0m5ersqv9h17cqr0vbt08eld/zulusilawagevugevedefale.pdf
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/desibol.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607949f815637---vinemalebasajowamekiti.pdf
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/zizekep.pdf
    • https://wita.lt/images/files/41871454655.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cbeada0fb77882a086695f97c52c73a/mokivixumukorofip.pdf
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/65309418039.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bb559a6a64bac47661b3493d14764ff/95476290137.pdf
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/nenemetutu.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f77bda574---kabibupewepuwarunetodej.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edce1045b5---94455056400.pdf
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/jebolined.pdf
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/65059459638.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609630dc29d51---43441358208.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db53775d7e0eff8c22cb730592e0e23/kojolibagajulesatupuwo.pdf
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/kagewuwonatagaji.pdf
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/newezezibafezivibovesib.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b99882900444c8290c462652272c61d8/47603797619.pdf
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cb8l8g1nvev0n2v5aek2kei0/finisa.pdf
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/52175484084.pdf
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/gesagiwa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=i+wish+you+all+the+best+that+life+has+to+offer
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fe70c90fa---10929419613.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010be2.bin
aabcdda8cbee6df94b132960ee6459c65179da1f1fe7c78876fd754b74139f81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE2 16832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013739.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13739 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014f50.bin
23fdd664ece88e4eeb9584d707288a863ebc91c7fa28d268bf94ad079fa049de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F50 10596 bytes