Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a5b6386826bc335…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:03:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1f67cc6fcbcbded497f99f28633ac6f0 SHA-1: 9314ed23406b45e20d24492828a3ca5fa2b8c2de SHA-256: 2a5b6386826bc335be6af2b3d889f5ff59d5cfdc0eed7e77783210e3f480c8c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edbc353ec32014fcbabc1096d3063aa6/13308385459.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a53c992ff9f635be6df4f426dc366b25/3704625385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1r6k7dogqgjsfg3rrv76pfj7g5/rorigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/selanozeroxudoruguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/malaposigotupufixesakofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ba7e0be16---tojovajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb7396c414657a531781d8b2d46ef58/86630701962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b4972812fc54ab66e92dbbaf59890d/60647491871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef53de96c9---sarefewitofijeget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/bexedibigumesebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2f336fd1810975d76341b066fa772f3/73632980827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609003ba542b0---29216419462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/44933360673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinotukuwuferefixirarubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a83607ccbe---96132064024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zokegosawaxuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/lomuremimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/40469155859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e85e25818---21490161531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb26fc6a09fe1b94db4225ecb1807fea/zozipoteno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955f9ca2c3d239b292dfaa44b99ce063/23067233296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ae6c2a10a---zuwofarovoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/kemafajekosekedusinuwazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/14067921255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf7bd013b7---88604338956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/5450644300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/82438198234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=dumb+from+dumb+and+dumberPDF 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_off0000f95e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11175 10352 bytes
SHA-256: ba0a78a79fcad8341753befc1161e8294e6cc81c2b32610d8b32d3aa3dda7b46
font_02_sfnt_off000128be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128BE 17424 bytes
SHA-256: af3549b00b40369caf200d6496e67229ee597ff9362928e0a6b8a16dd20ad6d9