Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 261ada9a6e0e3dcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:23:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f95eabc85bd04d6503966f28a15d621a SHA-1: 7a26be9cb3b44875bd20fb594e39a074125bccec SHA-256: 261ada9a6e0e3dcd64dc4a3ed013d454abd9228191d23ba4a03c9725a1081e42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites and are structured as a link farm. Heuristics indicate these links are used for SEO purposes and leverage disposable hosting. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through deceptive content to click on these links, potentially leading to further malicious downloads or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/85484115187.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320ff9b5b95---93480186567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/zerugemeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidssloten.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusasoziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385ca72f985---sojorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2caab83231dcf7195704382ff88d27b9/7773846850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55589861677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e5a75c593---17076086843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/87144378523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kikapajexaxewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/87890978880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6cc288de7---77967753352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/86776702794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380221ef6be---vixutoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malerbetrieb-malanders.de/Webseite/pics/fotos/1/file/lonalojuvotigibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/14980696792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/95840143924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/54117119014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitechdentalhouston.com/uploads/files/soboledezojazopozazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurea.se/currency/userfiles/file/31640446805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/95442364586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/laduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/38997944044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsmfcf1kj40d3enognbr4g5hvu/kivanupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacsbathtarntaran.org/~/userfiles/file/34085621250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3566cad64ea54e609ea75a8e3ea789/jewuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/97019112360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613928d7426a5---65560719111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+permanently+deleted+photos+from+android+phonePDF 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_off0000d8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E4 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 280c69f8d3debcf665f019cf8f53b04e319be4277518a1708054d562775b3c54
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010acf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACF 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 209a01aa884b98244c08e9c862cb77259e48448b0793463e40e273038cc7a6fc