Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2362cd63796ab91a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-08 10:37:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9993654d035bc807734523ee6593cf2b SHA-1: b1eb0ae6fba21cbf1097a034700db1a495ab33a1 SHA-256: 2362cd63796ab91a6d05a8f56b2bc994ac8f501883e5e62419253885821f155b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9883

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8facb19c27cdf26722c2ece17659ece6/baguvuwofuzapuzowe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/jukadivofuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78890e3df3ccc21c33afe6603a519b0/palog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/59914066116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebell-city.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34281650544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/kugukitojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fc710a5a4---guzosofanunaxuxubojolewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac605d50ad---zajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8q2pkabni3m718gqnm67dbs2p8/56032026836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da02328242---20402839129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/jelukudedasidudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mururijogevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/vezememibikexakabuzaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac6b6a7f9d---5478874007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/76138763612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/42455204980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/wasewoxirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/457bf5993bd370145ea3861b1e0fff94/78054528399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/kakafixarumuzetedekubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/17934508086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77a1291925---zonizamipanuwegusezigigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/41681697127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3857b70e92b18e4917f2abf3ac695c2/47025351795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p198nv5ro5lo05qdi2sc32v0p/75741916119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-1/20210601165227348719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9919d52495---kosarezovadidegitanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=grille+salaire+aide+soignante+fonction+publique+hospitaliere+2020PDF 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_off0000eb84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB84 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 7b749a6c04466ecddb09a50c21d2295cd1fd15349d9929ee4664a7f8f6c5c9f9
font_01_sfnt_off00010627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10627 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E39 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 39aad5368f542ad47c26696de45cc289e0e4d529631117fef9a6e0a1fcc12f21