Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 282fb832beded333…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:24:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 26eedf06f2f0d2744742f9bf2a46e6ae SHA-1: 18dc7038464335d34b8c95c9659b2bbd71a32191 SHA-256: 282fb832beded333c7bcb1f70707646c7d95ad78e48a9a12cb0bbcd6f2ca87b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an intent to lure users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/kijetozigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a08a118566731e139f146869f51dcf/zaxaxoxotezarofujipode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9bcea670ca51328124d2486f72cab9f/77694899324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cef273ad42b7d02ad02ff9d4ad10b9/72970541294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1046b3364e3c2450cec0cbc30d5e3de5/51144421384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c984c1d88b---sijuzimanenuwopipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/19485599846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b72f36e947---kaxejakusowijijudeveseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojixafoneleditametaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9917828342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/sufimaxijoroluwanope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009377f1a9d3f52275beab9c78560b37/valudigifami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/tegexawiviremun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/97706543687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3b80112e0---91397835026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717add7442b---rojiwowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0020ded40d64efbb4db2233d766a235e/rubokixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantese.eu/userfiles/files/penifulowolusuviworufavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/52368993730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2d6b9512b6---65914122367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioivaigiasi.com/Images_upload/files/nudanudize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vntof69bjfvngj4jp1mofvb6po/xedusisitevimimeforowomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mango+smoothie+with+oatsPDF 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_off0000ef27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF27 18540 bytes
SHA-256: 4f621d847a1e1a35bfe238bddf3adfeab824788d5a2aa03a0b52c74c00c3f16d
font_01_sfnt_off00011fe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13800 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 34d2b98c3416a1aad060a2c957167a1abe14966be1528eb8a562dc67e166f096