Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d60051165b54e12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 76f13169d8016b27ff3a1caff250fb58 SHA-1: 8a46cbd6b6732ae9220bdcfe508120d6635f4246 SHA-256: 2d60051165b54e12648c774d51226ee3c9fb85b1420003e575c2390d540cfdc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in some links indicate a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://voyagevietnamlaos.com/hinhanh/file/49963048767.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7e9bc98907eb094d51ce3425d14441f/55637681531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/flhk9tu2cpbvietfufsnh7cvi2/36967478750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410b0ab1d88225dc2d9ffaab0addab35/83380027915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/91958207445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parmalab.it/userfiles/files/gijiviwimomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/nipusokuvewuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a709b150b82---34211887518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimtronu.org/userfiles/file/mobevajazidadatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f7f8e3175---kovawebixojilunaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/55303552770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qbc1cepri68mkupptpn0gp4j6/dupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmehoa.org/clients/d/df/dff1b85474dadb967ea0c40f6d5e37f8/File/97214002101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cfdcdaa852f72f50df15b7180b642a8/99757066939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/dalumefawiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/gidawevorudojurog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4c2921346---lojomawikosebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokanezijirowagop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/mokebidabatoloseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95779cb8e4---topomufuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/wipukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb35f23e8---31683626657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/tabobavubusitowojilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermaktif.com/imgup/file/95073014834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768b25617ee---sodejagubifuvowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607580bf7f7f6---61298442937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=amiga+date+cuenta+libro+completo+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_off0000d4dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4DC 19140 bytes
SHA-256: eb1f5452802bcbe614d9b862817eb1fa9b3a5071bc352384cb9f9c56b68a5b77
font_01_sfnt_off000105c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDA 11016 bytes
SHA-256: f90292487fcb8122b4c20fd09e86219682f6798cf0c7dbff4abe27784bce6a42