Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2629a98ccca47c2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d386c5ac84576452110893d31b10f268 SHA-1: 22bcc78293d26a2d9f3edc1731feb2cd91cea97f SHA-256: 2629a98ccca47c2ebfacd07556c2c4c36e7e1283845b08737f76be3884223cc2
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads. Several URLs point to potentially malicious content, including one hosted on a compromised WordPress site. The presence of 'curls.se/upload/file/77665318098.pdf' in the document text suggests an attempt to execute commands or download further payloads, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/72974448140.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/20101227164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/67891034912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ain.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/837822042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136103f8dd27---87959949465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/17029387106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/wovawomoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/77665318098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375f212e308---piloluwatubekafazoforere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/40082500537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smgbid.com/ckfinder_userfiles/files/tukapotajolulufumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/norisulunepepixunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linardi.ru/files/file/revufujafutelutenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/19052400882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613230d21100d---22760268591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613414cbed0bb---69274843946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613848a8bafce---gedulifaxipulegunidepirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachattn.com/image/files/68160289943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0916773001630964884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/8310432301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senesi-sklad.cz/userfiles/file/36823314095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.comIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+colour+mix+makes+orangePDF 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_off0000de34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE34 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 7b59dfb93d4165ecebf181741f615ce3b21ebf7304aed6c95e4e3abcc728e5b3
font_01_sfnt_off00010d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12538 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 2ef441d491245ce45b44dda4083f874698d46ef28e9583270e9fd4cd8ee236ad