Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2500278a7f577790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 46bab2bfe44e1b18ba2d6a1606dd50c1 SHA-1: e12073be224a1e7d39873785a48c6c00757528d7 SHA-256: 2500278a7f5777909fe566abc26069efdc2e4825f7de2a576ca18ea48a3803eb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload, while the external links are used to host further malicious content, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec730f1fb1---metaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609841384b913---30053766282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaorganizasyon.com/ckfinder/upload/files/mafovekajumerawudipipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/latobasaveridikitajanoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f39725a344---soregijatozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/lapojomasepunomujamunoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/38834558420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/87466334869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/47695395455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070dda7789c0---gisikamifijupebodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/wagavaxezuduwokivifibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9d1d5eb6f---51202281813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0tktsgieik6g9f37d6rifgc9c/68319619764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwtcs.org/Content/uploads/files/63535106895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/vanalagalojixumulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/bobuzukaxadafusobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74160352885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/muvaverubutubiluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/59153324884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/genunovibunazonadozepula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamasteel.net/userfiles/file/53340687119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74i6f32cdstg2pf25hjlj9mjg7/80897173107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/24797757246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ice+cream+and+sherbetPDF link annotation
    • https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kikuzuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e3a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A5 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 30782b2857a9a4edcc283f5248a733fcd1f5d182a6a3da44ce21a246f400dfb0
font_01_sfnt_off0001116d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116D 10468 bytes
SHA-256: d7f1e70d9d2dafbc5a5418281259a66b8c42587973e02e89dcaa61cf41fa94e8
font_02_sfnt_off000128fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1