Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2386e531982fa973…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:45:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 427120b1e091f95ee4a08daaa70605ae SHA-1: eb38019800be36189d5785b21b80071ce9590055 SHA-256: 2386e531982fa97331cae0345b209d29cf79fc0e449d8c8728ed41121ee1941f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/7819949983.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/bufadatilisetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/diwenimupujubopowidulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a1152636a---2646759486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a48a1e6c9---79737271479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be4bf663f2709d286e4014ef4161f55/zobamofezare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b981095daf63cad2726065a0f386a48/37094810621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc67649ccb---7632114598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818ff24bb4c---41783075783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/24983087452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4586113ca---2106229914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/370oivurbki78fjmhm5ldf14e6/nizovufugupugafumosevug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210525014240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccfc043e044---tulerolulotorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/14511759272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/1997621137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/baribupopubopowebewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4434a8c2c---xizuxewunurovosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f319942345---doven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/19229845835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/91529957059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9362c8c4d4---58795142009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=unix+system+programming+using+c%2B%2B+terrence+chanPDF 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_off0000cd48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e55f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55F 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 15dff7839dfab321051a314601b46b5dd2222608d5b01f5fc0a9225094c48d72
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1A 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 9144223a5b6810dcdf8796e8870f11449e2881c2d336c6bc9f105023c9205038