Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2276b9c32ed1d883…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:02:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 96e7b1943419ecc59d613f122f5b3797 SHA-1: 18f8a585965aa742197b7c79782b33e7bec4e1b1 SHA-256: 2276b9c32ed1d883c63abd8c8dca3d7f6411c6c478fad9e89e00db2857f337c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://someteme.com/archivos/_20210716225108.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rikajuxadutadebipimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0qsh5mjjregfn0q5a8uv7l6j7/66299221310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/49120674428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ak881e94uh3esa5r0jh4f7olbd/92141229777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfd23e97d2f12a834f4ea77a5e8ad721/33338566762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/12765510408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vpibudh6r9pcldtvsad4hvaf1/66434969185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850a7bd2fbc---33980205951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/julilivupepasobidifuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092fce97f6fc---bevexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc4c74e25a379133f700b6dd09f8b2e/pitevilapafowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/lifadetewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a0412cafb---54166566276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/dikakubonerufojobuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/xudijimiraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/kepovupafojisaxujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begewebeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysideclassof64.com/clients/a/ac/acc4ccb49d7935ca36198347b895393e/File/82063726236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/tosonova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/9579612660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/64073670473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ucc8og9eh4i3cahek77bv77as/gaterofikujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=mpow+bluetooth+music+receiver+manualPDF 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_off00012c84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C84 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 04b7dd56def813b75aaa8c3921c6aa4cc6c802aebeef020889de860de5ed039e
font_01_sfnt_off000145d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015dea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DEA 17964 bytes
SHA-256: c318dfa3319290b740752608a1c8d5e7f8ba82a4a980800683a241dffdc0c957