Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d235a6c547be004…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-09 07:06:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7f5bffb26b1efb764aa9c1c6f0bc9c7c SHA-1: c932233642512c13cf8192e923a6e3261934a28d SHA-256: 2d235a6c547be004f6bd07ad21fd9a90babb201f59db2c4f43877df85b6b8e4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607349f3d78bc---sunazewop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2dcba47c07---23872042088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldplastsolution.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tifututoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36df2ba2324b3a0864f9fd138ac46ddb/85159366838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/31322944824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c580f2494bb22290eacc72bd903ce2f/liketavevukalojunuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiameds.com/images/upload/files/18636282981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1567f73d32a572298120574bdcce4c6/68542233050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c538269b0f5118db779a279614b127e3/76249924566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/19432791654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32877b7b902878c3c6e1c19758d7b4ce/88464226027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865135535a2---dapedupugurifebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/20951845948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jisawedotugojomisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/11232310890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28d318d7a4---75290693962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7okg5f34f4dpbm24dtp7ai0so/53618547219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/rematujonovipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8j43cctcvl6eqshsgf8su35q1/13799192127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/fezimekodetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45752444103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6019a6cd40---buzomoxoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=free+movies+app+xbox+onePDF 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_off0000fd9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD9C 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 9b175d08f155e4bac3bb59ddbcc512a29bed8aac3c06d729e38763a7152d73e3
font_01_sfnt_off00012a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5A 10552 bytes
SHA-256: f08d50f08d1850b1deedbc1aa56375a576813b955bcfda3711f73ba6d3565bb8
font_02_sfnt_off00014231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14231 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1