Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2564dc099e1dfc9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 23:12:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 90f278f0c44646024b719a262874e807 SHA-1: 9587cf7e3ebd0529f2cdda11da0de742386785f0 SHA-256: 2564dc099e1dfc9daef996996d1e84473653ae27568a7d1ec4f0fbd4186ac4b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be to lure users to malicious websites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/sefululuvek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/bulekujalalegugubasikafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/jazifovividotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/nofegivipotume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamhanoi247.com/upload/files/84087710512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/54479108965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/lejomudamulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e155d25fc4c8e2849404527c222682/26382361755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3840854c2fa78386bd90b47c6202266/moraliwaxatalinosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b5a02a730---wegasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d63d2ca7e29---fasujasatefusebesaraxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs8s3d60eqg4un5jajh5novc06/16459695037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/vuvaxinaxalujageveposa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nncflpue894iu5pl5n4nkdgc45/zanusawozizofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/75853797206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a94e5e8d4---furavamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/21218262723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/tobatukiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/55003848571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dbf434bb7---62543451917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f0b77ccb8---56961711998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fd8f945827c3ca9516a10e130bd5495/wiribeposokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonahotel.vn/UpLoadFile/file/tajubiguwelukusirinaxavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k5gf3gi4i9htjat7huibnt2o2/61566643450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607810753409e---tanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=all+types+of+centipedesPDF 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_off0000f5cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CD 16440 bytes
SHA-256: aa4bf4c05544e5c89e32e3c55ae179cbadbee00c77ed97221d56f8115e9948f3
font_01_sfnt_off0001207c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207C 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 2db9fe13696147ad315191578efa4c7855ba8b187d9649274ffe743b96a1dcad
font_02_sfnt_off0001385d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1385D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1