Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2392f0f88e6aeb5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 84f8b70b08512fa52cfd46aedfb9a282 SHA-1: 1dd9c148ab45f5a78edceb675b29f1cb79dc60d1 SHA-256: 2392f0f88e6aeb5ace2b7f7ea98033a8398f6fccbf490fa2994c32ce530ed039
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external resources, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://estoniapools.com/contents//files/boresixesidurevozikaxari.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ik8308notvcm5qbgsjk4ii13/42784447931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os3m63sk4pceehvhtnt8qv0rnf/fobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/54052371002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099efc322258---dopaxixevixepuniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/wijozutokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikber8tl1p8q4vre7gohu92e09/12792650115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caerulumpharma.com/upload/files/zitobire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/1434578724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ffd74a409e7510db0bb223f15e32733/dimaterebuzesapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisepiwekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/3625436758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/zizexivemumunipozareba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qrid6r50c64lvtfh0iongt6b77/75596750975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/panuxaveduzagugurirojejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/61058771109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/10598615758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf00f6246fb---jiganumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/71284891489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607356f2cf03e---23679690232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prompol.com/media/file/pufikulikuvabovamorogamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/bamezogozibosenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2786e20ed---dojoleremuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2090ea30f7c0d78248d80556d4b2e558/5146620182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090582a3a3bb---wugupojobeburapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=authorised+signatory+letter+format+in+wordPDF 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_off0000c678.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC678 11084 bytes
SHA-256: aca5691c6d4c0e429aabe91e5e5213d27c3d65216d3c1879a8eb93fdd721501d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE006 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF818 18316 bytes
SHA-256: 80ef7e897cec67785c4f1e93a521017f7295bac7bb4b2b1a4c22cc839b136775