Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2340cbea9dcf9ba7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:28:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9117f02fbd62b65679dbb97df47db97a SHA-1: c4f6861b5850445066433ec7c263c9e3f5452dfa SHA-256: 2340cbea9dcf9ba74ce648bf46bc253debec24189a3e837848a7b55bc7892b20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites, a common tactic in phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/44223958494.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vv76ioq6ghb3nvacmuhgvg0siq/zamiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e50d9ebf8d49fc4b4302dca9d8314d8/posuwutosupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fca0c63f31---38538251996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66c9e26d7a---bowojiduleniritid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da7ca5d783c9f58b6ca5d8a4f9d0479/58158211499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d85288bb3a12a880acb92640fed53c4/96737024910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be991b6f1d5---geravovesusedokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/nulevenuzebidikobegim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/70241064726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/tetedoxejabawewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///54644864471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a7otbmdns6nsf1e7e5fultq9/28078765129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/516eig4fmgqdq31p3ui1u5gtk7/84219957412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/61037353444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/69131337773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a985ea8e087---zutisemopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21587281255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fs1dp09lkn93t7biqnbf9612e/19482617830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa50f515a84a0335edebf0f6e3f30d73/mujexezavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kai5b01hlad8i44gvqv6a95nb/36495454107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/xuzixusotezodakuzibugufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/gewixike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=semiconductor+device+modeling+with+spice+pdfPDF 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_off00017e45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E45 21164 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3508b0f558d099783ccc803cc24066a55cea4e89cbe489c4487711f9a52223
font_01_sfnt_off0001b7e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B7E5 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 0e1bb89936e18264e5acb2b31996a4c989d8b78f15ed524939ee4b02391adb87
font_02_sfnt_off0001d1d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D1D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1