Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2229dca541c296f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:59:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3f6db888effecd6fcec08a1fda3f5a35 SHA-1: 2efbd069ea084b6f9067b0874319d2a7d37d83e8 SHA-256: 2229dca541c296f94e0a26a0e460c73fb31efc452873e28a0c09efe82fab13a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, with many external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be distributing other malicious files or redirecting users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://huntland.hu/upload/file/dozifexumazefe.pdf
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/69660064403.pdf
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elnctk9u375bqfpo1s3lnh1suh/54116923489.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf8be1455a---33610845212.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22c84ef9aa---lesebuwofov.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a606c9720---buzoroxi.pdf
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/45818148740.pdf
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/47405989758.pdf
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607839e751fd3---fijalisageputagesetelize.pdf
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/22529215027.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae07e0fe48f496fe4184802be6503b3e/zudusaxexikevenof.pdf
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33610f2df6---vipajilib.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bd36488a1---jasopubiva.pdf
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/40233710383.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i55bb63bmug1kkfo6p3218qsn8/15523838544.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94502f096c---18530222977.pdf
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1e44bf827b81896950635333a10ddc8/49314575120.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74bd8d834d---60990770223.pdf
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/7436952176.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87645f88b2b2dfad43e6b7682b20cf4e/1152684309.pdf
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51i6l8e8b0a41lk1dn3ajsuolr/legadaregefuv.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=past+continuous+exercises+negative+and+interrogative
    • 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_off00011fbb.bin
9b7e3925cb486b910400794948b8aa4100a6669d06b6450e9e16f8f1c8e4e0bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBB 10768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001388c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001509e.bin
b02474c3b033e1b814fc576e7dc2c0a63c5a4ebc3dd60727c505665c446bc1fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1509E 22188 bytes