Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2833806f70e04866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:20:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 37462213b2f3d3b7cb66f5832de928a6 SHA-1: 89d9e3d8129742db46f872bc10174853043e53bd SHA-256: 2833806f70e04866e3f48976d0dff1fc973e23790d06755a377f09ced01df6f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns that leverage malicious documents to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160805e586d2d1---jibevuwodimosewolegevur.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/riromulelowapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/6230044822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/13656367328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/xelosazenovevepubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/koxefupinesimawetozabufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/wasubidosuvowiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/83798176477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/wukekiwegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orlickachata.cz/files/files/lumowurogupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/teximitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b956fa05a87510986ce723b86f18a610/gufegagatutirudirulexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d5d19beb16---saridodadunuzikorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/zifeniwokuvitejovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee57adf108---31755106642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lemfhafamilylove.com/clients/a/ae/ae548a02e38cf20d1222216853584fb4/File/79388193441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c027614ed41abfffde65d44dbd0e21a0/tesegukijenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610369be00ff6---tawekotajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt1vge9k9j34jdo27ed0epoeb6/kuwajiromatodisolapobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/pavanusuredaliwevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kusupigapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d34846b14b---ranidilumuxefiroxajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=isley+brothers+sheet+music+pdfPDF 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_off0000cb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e34e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34E 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 840989537264bd7fc1346f2ae9d2f607135561eb131dfe73fca6e2c49d6960ba
font_02_sfnt_off00010f8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8F 10924 bytes
SHA-256: dd0522f23c5595c8aa751f6db4267a592ac207a0896edf309ef5a66af5079151