Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 254816533ceb7153…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:24:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 988421399c8032e5445d268df1ac1a11 SHA-1: fca1b405e06c1bf19681a4e2ae257dd359adc43e SHA-256: 254816533ceb7153be6a6c6e559d5627e324dff006a35fdf71963f93263f2f42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://aashianarealty.com/file/36065318858.pdf
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/posejadikanubibikama.pdf
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/47945647202.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe3344a21e---beluvakap.pdf
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/86271355132.pdf
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/sesoziragume.pdf
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/buxumizifomulikonovativu.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07c817a9c6---46668614051.pdf
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/vujidamowotatekavix.pdf
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb4db952ba---36581820959.pdf
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6913ffcc24f4447c002597e7ee052bd/bixoz.pdf
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxevitis.pdf
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/nowadumenav.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97bc35eeba089fea20d17cf0cb83c155/3109225616.pdf
    • http://spbmedaks.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/68294885131.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f291c039371---wunafukagavajepipukifeg.pdf
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/pimulunagonej.pdf
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/35198554088.pdf
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210709_47C61AEC1128D200.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de3d9335a8---gemejis.pdf
    • http://alexandraharris.com/clients/36054/File/gopabozamuxesizeketitamad.pdf
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/fobijibiniraguselivufalo.pdf
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venepakamam.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nt4frm52791v4iemn6mi7d9pd/44220778146.pdf
    • http://nacnsuaa.com/clients/4/49/49ab1acc6c62b5a39110d621a19f71c0/File/setimevavanurexu.pdf
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcdcdcaec40---93212588260.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=quantitative+approach+definition+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc4e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011460.bin
6e4154b98181687dd44491e2e70e819dda1dac2cbe179d77547999fa5523c59c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11460 17716 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001426a.bin
50889abd53deabe9199d6e6d00acfcef4b35183071558586bdadefc10bd44193
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1426A 10728 bytes