Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d14719020905697…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e5120343e94cdb2f00c6274a91ba8b6b SHA-1: f56f7087210a957c0de9c61997bdc3ce53c6d8bc SHA-256: 2d147190209056974dd5ff64e2801368c73ec31cccb1ab0719c3961d1ada5cc4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to host phishing lures. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent related to link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/32908312665.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fab3b65b6---45957094064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4374da4764---saxutofisuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5ec43d2c4---dugamigomukitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23dbd52b8953fce969650c1c9607214b/41248738350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/36007617333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28d02b41f9---mabonekixula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/44601792962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a714e68678---vuvomezojazaxajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b498a9c9ae9---33794997977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429051426116797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hifi-markt.org/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97832078454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bf94df66d---xoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0dca81d4a805051e9ea51d64dbd9245/zatorujelufinopaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/26327872491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e454747bdb---kejaxojelodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-15/20210515114214378120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/39651746608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/regurulexunuwakabixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwonepivibusanaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6vomlobc36gdcnmbe0bgo0ui7/tetafozodotifupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/jidomewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7fac11365ca240390676e6d69befe25/82082792377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f100bb3fda---74916916682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mrs+frisby+and+the+rats+of+nimh+pdf+onlinePDF 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_off0000e5e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFF 11008 bytes
SHA-256: e14f27179d9116aded690f7fe590b10cb6f5f1044eb20b2b7ff4c57bbbaf9925
font_02_sfnt_off00011727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11727 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 4117db690771a8c3fbf72a25b4104bcee5e4a68e5180652db629e9258a4d34de