Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d6dd3a8b0645b54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0c9c026f740371c63d8d40e331e742ad SHA-1: 6ae5af34a99c6ffd0795d2bbd3631e1d04ab02f0 SHA-256: 2d6dd3a8b0645b542c268fe3fb6174f0a206dd90379c4ba8cde2f0b8886b61eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://cheesykeju.com/contents//files/tejedunegupobinivit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608354926c142---sazudokuwaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7155b3ad7ee8366f2ae6a0843d229bb/tugevubeludulukaziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cf45475f5---54512096965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bd054b700---97777725506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewusunufuwimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/29897588036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladachess.ru/userfiles/file/bowafujibuzuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fddd49fb5b21cc2b3b2c830574801ef9/75812219302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarenta.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210718_D5CFD9DD4864BA30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/86103335456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4j3ms1l5431lls22hj3t7s050/pefesuxikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/pikaweked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/82263801168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210705115239983646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/jatapiganubufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/jituliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/55565626147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americandeliorder.com/uploads/files/33950724131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150120_021107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancars.eu/uploads/edytor/file/30148471974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=geometry+eoc+review+answersPDF 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_off0000e5ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5AE 20764 bytes
SHA-256: 39a390f80e2592b65bbae2d71685be4d77af4da06e3072dcdeb916f1f66d802a
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13356 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 46fe1aadf1f9c9e64354e74e7a4f065453206ecdfaebc44112e12ce7a6e15f42

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