Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 282f18dd1fa0b2eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:54:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2bba38c100070ae4826a559b7e112008 SHA-1: 03c28e7b6fd85e65c3021a2e1acac84aa34d10cd SHA-256: 282f18dd1fa0b2ebde5424cebc0b8fa6239d0e794713b224ac21d90bceacb7fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple links, including one on a compromised WordPress upload storage, suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/34072354089.pdf
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/fosixububusajeteb.pdf
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0b77c809bb41d92e1e5adffd2274af/kanagozat.pdf
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-15/20210715215511659453.pdf
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6594642744.pdf
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/nekefa.pdf
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30805135400.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo5u98s3uesac1ka28ennkq2c6/zuledafulilajaxotoxokag.pdf
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/8284412213.pdf
    • http://alumnicollegedelunion.org/clients/76066/File/8953343837.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9014872afd2b071023f7a4958e732ca/95068246777.pdf
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents/files/madorazewajabobifowirupa.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5k6e85ld9ocagfjbef5dfhfbq/jusasunefupewedagibas.pdf
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/jimorudakadokelakok.pdf
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021071304515918.pdf
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/48543348259.pdf
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/29663089548.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ed57d8af2f---zusonodumevofiva.pdf
    • https://lostfoundglobal.com/userfiles/file/zafazesamiseladubama.pdf
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66c7acbe37---wopugabovegipipuf.pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b21a1d581---nusutalejomi.pdf
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb153f4c33cfb0d5abbd5f195561862/36289221497.pdf
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/60113725685.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=photo+converter+to+pdf+online
    • 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_off0000db25.bin
bfd0306a4c7e7c3845e4fc205e5a94a77874bf56c76e83c807667c0bd68a2898
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB25 18140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109bd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121d4.bin
d5640ba2a021d3d184720d253bc58c8fa29305a85222dddb1d0bb181f59ee4b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D4 10456 bytes