Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2de5a8ddc8ac9d19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:32:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 254483d015a02e32eb5b0dd49202d009 SHA-1: e0f2518641802d9c6323c281215c2042828d7874 SHA-256: 2de5a8ddc8ac9d19b2dd3e2a5ffd369af9803c2d0c67eb8c1cbafe1143473918
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate effort to create a network of links for potentially deceptive purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://bn-biz.com/userData/board/file/54692967125.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/51614642856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41799385672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357536b63c7---59061919038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/82934707219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/koguwanudatovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/74373188988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/81888839978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equipelec.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70329452331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/zejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-plast.ru/foto/files/nifujopedejuxisaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabuvapugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/80632817892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinastom.ru/userfiles/file/wumedupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835be63c70f9231b36939e3504d07815/66715327238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remobudostol.pl/pliki/7822045561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/paxuvigixogefaribepewazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatangsongvan.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/juvama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/denodifiziruxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/36484177668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7af0bf346248e16569943cca6911d541/82865303429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3685022224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=joseph+a+gallian+solutions+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_off0000fb0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0E 20036 bytes
SHA-256: dda1c0c3fe54fac3bc91049a2e2958b03a2c15f2618d43c17e22f8fc44045411
font_01_sfnt_off00012ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14812 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 179b04ca766f7c1f1cbcec1532c2566f71917eb64d50880d06709c96dffde130