Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2192ffc5ff6a96eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 88824be8b2a0cfce9c0e5c826808ab01 SHA-1: 9c8e94033694df187808ae60e9fd9416df300274 SHA-256: 2192ffc5ff6a96ebb806b2f188b73b1d15e11edc798ad388d8f28ae163f336eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55f216b297d24585e8fb495c9ac272ff/bujomatilikazes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/sozopifojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/28426735013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1141be69bc---3608171327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/54669632848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/luninaseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/91918728456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/64218483577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/13517099778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/xevurokuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4uhbagp90amk9pka5c7llmaren/75135924790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4e201d113---25767629776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accu-chek-event.com/ckupload/files/3352941466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7858f5db0a---wimadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/69631699520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/milin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/77296424307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/wevibiwimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=lymphocytes+absolute+meaningPDF 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_off0000d907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD907 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 27e20789b84f9ad2d9af038da8a3d2ee2d55adb9ce9d650c116fc8f8b1aab71b
font_01_sfnt_off00010754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10754 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 85ae2158e7eb3bc72082c950444e7e843478d765f08506ecaf07f80f65e6984e
font_02_sfnt_off000120a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1