Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2de51f520e14df00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:37:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 16c90d152deead112fcccf04a8afe230 SHA-1: b6ef96731099fa5f5daee28f72d571c5e60595af SHA-256: 2de51f520e14df00701082734c9fa42ed6ecffb5ffec93e4657a712b7ce23984
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210518230414.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837d73ee487---84971382734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/47666254682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/63845075605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951c8771963---22373420524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce095702f0edf4fb9b714d568b888ac/ximozakuzedetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef42376b223b1caa47f3911e231372bd/xorezedezuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/69940095940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f28d3e9678---94005405654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/16354189992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f9ae91138---93438166855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c39e6b820370360fc3abe475c09536a7/13212120522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2be1brea4vijcurma8knfrm515/zopemodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94ffc04179c50770250a8afff5ee4fef/34388249070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/48919666602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/vajuvili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/wivefogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad31b036f2fd0419d3575c90aabe9959/19007058288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2d81cf3af8ba626bcf1c2f53b3354f/netumetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulada.by/upload/editor/files/88095469732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/6825397547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab39e22eaeead7dfdea3e56d48e5e37/gerulivufijudafagajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/58200231000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec205ea9d0---3371941157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eab33cb7f---19243632841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pitch+template+powerpoint+freePDF 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_off0000f500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF500 18572 bytes
SHA-256: c8dfed1cafb6e90fa98a2ef7045f3627febf3af6a517dd5eecea9564edd76881
font_01_sfnt_off0001248f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248F 10664 bytes
SHA-256: ff5be5135df1dbd2f839fe2e14a827a6015aac897cab30f2b14a5b74faec5ac3
font_02_sfnt_off00013cd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1