Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2451ed49ee889435…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-08-26 13:42:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9096482a760215b1618c5d937e198cc0 SHA-1: b0fc8fd4239036c0b48acc44d169b9f93e4f383a SHA-256: 2451ed49ee889435bae350d6085091c5878f0bc1eb006fb74c505404ca46318e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/15617399124.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://refta-bg.com/userfiles/file/45979360853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7k8784uk349cndoh4bhapl6al/wobewatiweved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a3b9b1715---zatakimafetedufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b4a5db407---lojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/19628850049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwamage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/64599699236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///wesofajeravolifoluxivuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909c5ca3ab---zubunoxolotetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/37142771318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/luzuzelubaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/boned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epicridesnepal.com/files/girusimebuxexumamope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8j0r8ag08jn9a33q3kokdvajc0/xinidumoxerofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8ab5a0762---8341071684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/13455755095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajansnigde.com/resimler/files/juwojibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/61823402750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e86b6b2c0---gifirugugajokalivimuvala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkpower.net/upload/files/49883831253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc54d91b67---82104429423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/2287209463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/namupexosisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a44fd5334---bogitojoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=timothee+chalamet+anorexiaPDF 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_off0000df30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF30 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 446a2b6e419ee05075fdb0f16e0c9e9c372f028faa58d5827726776bb86ea9b9
font_01_sfnt_off00010b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B34 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 978adecb8361f9139230cb8cb47fc9820ff8bf6690790592852de8b7ac02a2a1
font_02_sfnt_off0001228c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1