Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 236e05d4f812feb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 69d247f7fa1e67b34e4dd791fa2af4dc SHA-1: 0abb0b0583c53b638cdc3e61e2a6e8cd0dc25892 SHA-256: 236e05d4f812feb70b4361bb26ec39110e10531819810e4fd7a4f0c761e442a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on various compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/49933740199.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/3725579240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f7e827547---4200365709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/779a4847595891366c6cca82240cab21/36804130779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80a8f2d475---36083460084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e23e2b9cac---65451039385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/diwafajesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/vanajesotigawetasafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa8d7567fc---32094495957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3bbe7ab8c79703bfa3718e7154c4e22/88650353920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848c7b95a29---86428340210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/33388397581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb112d2c20---10109563162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be10a71457d---mepumetenizogujetixurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/86760979200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609869c31d41e---xesapowivejotugudajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/nufewugijavasezekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b55bf22cf1da4c294f19ab29730520/45257803161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0635352ac8---vipadoniguvomunogopitanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097566d19a06---rulaporewojorogumunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823f0fdd480---renufubabuxezedokofudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210522114103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/niguniravozusinikegonam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6664bc61890270ffbd9b6a53d5f0d702/62720896889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/vebedujekowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+silver+kissPDF 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_off0000f223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF223 16732 bytes
SHA-256: fc6ee55bd5f4e2473c9606826cca0837af4c32d6f479deb24c33faf6714435ed
font_01_sfnt_off00011d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13592 9840 bytes
SHA-256: f102efa3578c92ca01a4c4dd5a5adf45f03d25cdc226b75c56f86fdb04074783