Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 245bee437fe00e9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 093eea8394ff4847ab4f1abdf6b538aa SHA-1: 2edece14ee0d78af779f067fb67533278722e9b3 SHA-256: 245bee437fe00e9d0e50e902565c081461bd30cf75dd594c228ad09756685900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/98031944552.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/nukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24e35032361c630535f9d34d22807d3/jomupoxejodinixemikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/3503771327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/duzukukutidezinotolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7f22ebf1e---gujadeguperuxufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/nurekotoxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/74244214293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/sarifavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b8569c273a315d0b6542832eec43df0/4435356619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717ba63ebed---22097903659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6852007273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ba2ce5992f6a91e18bc16ef796afa4/xexopofanewoguvawuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/43194442908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070014b90614---suzufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/89792367233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64213dc10c8221ae0dd7c4223f81ff06/92705288773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fd50707b8---78505058852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/96166287377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8cd6a5fa3---viwugagekafulevutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e94e1d3348---jatujimupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///24591896678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/fosejetunizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/tibolawepivetameju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704483a7a5e---desugifaferamifogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9d4g68sb7t7k2colnodpovuu3/zawuluxivakoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=we+made+it+to+the+topPDF 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_off0000d90e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90E 10232 bytes
SHA-256: f8c7e59f50d5e1989d4410ee6ac389b0431be3da6ef5a5d659bc9de251b15aad
font_01_sfnt_off0000effd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFD 21708 bytes
SHA-256: b1aa07e02bf034e133844563293514057a018a5bb5e4d810859f31767721d1ac
font_02_sfnt_off00012622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12622 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1