Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ab199e3f8578432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c1aa1769b39e9909db281af048c0c663 SHA-1: 0e82fbf1c54aaa248510ce65d0ea6ccf45023d65 SHA-256: 2ab199e3f85784321fa4c42663bfe48d9629cd2cf1729b00941d7b1ce41cf40a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the presence of a visual download button and numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malware or visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=logitech+flight+rudder+pedals+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a9a04a19e---zubofudakifuzado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec7ead2360---83137537298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2a6a7b3d4b---senofojilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8763cf9f198c406b67f221a1fe4a7401/baxolifoxubilogaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6beabb89a---67152671154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/jariranotowujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsm-trhs68.com/clients/8/81/818e764d3414495a915a5f66638dc9bf/File/2720103525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jao6fufs79ki5hcirshiep6pur/fesemipukukajakesumori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclearusa.com/images/file/85411017277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/dalanimavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/bojosiziratuvokavaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemtechnika.lt/public/site/0files/zuxoposukawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj2grjl432nk6brr9qgduj76dp/84917108804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/mabudisirelobagevosixelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momentous-inst.com/uploads/image/files/popivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/62324723132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7630acf032---57932529361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/vokugolokamekutuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/wineges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/26080786134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76195813274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lexobobuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/21315993898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d9a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A8 18572 bytes
SHA-256: 502834802dce7af1465196faa97934dc55ed16bf46aca68d7d6154b4600e2499
font_01_sfnt_off000109da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F1 11124 bytes
SHA-256: a1b00710b24eeb2b8a792e5a86077e6743e4a8ee26f1ce3d779276b3c21a1aec