Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 252b5b4ef9115773…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:48:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eab8b1a098d4a558c81290cc7c096bf0 SHA-1: 2506e613b542bcdf005fe1f1e65c4d328c7817ef SHA-256: 252b5b4ef9115773e13b04ded79eaac845cd0dc00e1ad73307daa0fb8831282b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+friends+and+influence+people+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/51142272127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8shlqk74f4oiie7oc7cbm3287k/mesusivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/tatevomotanupese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad5de620b52c3e11015f384182b43445/bosalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/19830084302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc10a80c8c30a2e055b4c42b79fdc446/wuloxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/34289236887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/wobaginifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17209671638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caogenzhiben.com/filespath/files/20210906041134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/55012028789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md2bp4blu02as12b21pq25kos4/98692302761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac9bd9559a---wivedexotozaduvukobapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312adc43c0e---mazix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/gukojarunemewiposig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/kimopajazinutomidobobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27183447173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twsl.mingann.info/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210904140120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/82611726235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/26733443710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/88048687242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-store-sys.com/userfiles/file/95933209989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rvhifi.cz/files/file/74235092375.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_off000118fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13111 11188 bytes
SHA-256: fbd4f5adc382de5ee2ba480b582a66b44313ac363f5613160624c84328ce08cd
font_02_sfnt_off00014afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AFC 17308 bytes
SHA-256: c7fb38a23bcfcbeb493b3768ba8d68781e5dbbe41fa7eb333442cc1d9a165260