Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2226ed4c3c653b7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 13:58:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f5def0cb8f5d33f0bc453aeafad3b151 SHA-1: 50845f6bfcf69c0d3bc786c52b51302c7c6ace60 SHA-256: 2226ed4c3c653b7f6e5ab21c6ce37bcfbaccb6cc75cc9212308b48ae04da65c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files hosted on various websites, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. This pattern is commonly used to distribute phishing content or further stages of malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96fd5713b6834f5696d4d44ba1079e31/basoxixemutezujotazasuj.pdf
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/70253747399.pdf
    • http://desagresbrts.com/clients/34568/File/refipafesa.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9993vcuj19g0q03gfrpce7lqmt/80638994028.pdf
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/50628799074.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd082416d8---barejexukerufeso.pdf
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/pepijewugozidixi.pdf
    • https://ilmercatinosottocasa.com/file/xidojexigagonumevurud.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqg5nhpgecedfvo9op9iij3f4p/wekaj.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976754b8782---78866814504.pdf
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/96842497329.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073832b75348---99537426138.pdf
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae2ce4f3e9048ce73f5c2b98c1637dc/lanekimesiwolerunu.pdf
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f00229deac70531ebf88a2654b779e8b/tenowomanu.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070df95caa79---10886846483.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19c0598c42---somupebufoxesapilaxodovi.pdf
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/jowozibusixesinuzota.pdf
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f81debb045259509133be2781b9156d/vukujino.pdf
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/duwegabevonibafelijemoz.pdf
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/soraxadoxabufadavarore.pdf
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/65521242680.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67b54dfcc5acb3e273d404ab38c4a20/85601427818.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/90983713279.pdf
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e4cc5fe91---90523821979.pdf
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898de4b0644---20920873048.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=strand+gourmet+meats
    • 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_off0000ba0f.bin
eb8022a93efc903c1c2a9cd3c23aa6e200a5f68ea13bcda54eacb6bbc3631bf3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA0F 10628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d21e.bin
66febf41da03321b7dbad6d80af3d5ebf9240b556b0edf5498101388f438f07f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD21E 16560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc65.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC65 16792 bytes