Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2353f147616edb5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8f10bdaa519cd501bb9ea36a644ceac3 SHA-1: 313335fe5f7467c966fb1eb48794a2abc2a68d6b SHA-256: 2353f147616edb5aa3d464ddc219c683caf8085fade5e6f6f6681cf683de7127
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/53174232497.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e82347f4af0c2d42235bab813e3c16/10171990060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d3f90e6f899112dfc9f121b8a9faa58/wuxotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeloneguvabujegulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sodrex.pl/userfiles/file/semanuminojegivimiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents//files/24624040792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/wosetaxelimobetobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86aa5d5f99---86131174985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084857ed7254---vinitanegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b744844e4---zurenusigalanufijajujutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/majonariwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/87339516540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cde54c110---49900687661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u8ba5vskd26s0jfglj5le62i5/ziwotaxivipetamek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/19233379364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086175ddcd41---42130526108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27fa53152a---pezesebabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d02c39920993276a56e827e0e33567c2/10987398447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d966413df---kazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/20448484657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9j76c0g246rm2fj9l4kn7lpbs/fojulazumulukomuwidupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ab62054717b703aaf8c72a9d286e5b/10985132719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/56029298251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaef9ec1547---11634752262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rorixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lowest+gdp+in+the+worldPDF 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_off0000b8a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A8 15372 bytes
SHA-256: ab6fe69bad6ce6d89e3e088bba2299ec7ba8e06157c1a147adf5aaf55d772085
font_01_sfnt_off0000e08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A3 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 2ad2989bd833a237bf9cf101e5412a5f1851867aef3c27960464836f8f7ea649