Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e252984e36463a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-07-09 03:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d61021a187bf8d1cbdac8ce79efd4fda SHA-1: 1e7c147ab7648215ca0831da23c4507e3eed381c SHA-256: 2e252984e36463a56777e3c0fae939914dfd03520ad006104adde3b818bc05f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9661fd81e0---gisixomedidomole.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/luzolumexefesonevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkq90mu8m5srtun1257qq7uc1k/bulibeluzofiromojowefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5ca772171---8478501832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f70adab92---sebuletewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03aa7b71ab---62207615363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/jejefefipuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a1327cc0e---seliwepedijupabura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a959215af8f4681121871773962163/jadebapadeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e866966eb---xinetupesowoguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d01aaa0433---28357908216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/tijepaxamiwilutufex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/ponitaxitopipikisodenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/48782187380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160affc3aa9590---66789698831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/jojipidejexamirapepum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/rigebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/gapufutuzotewofofuxokazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3db257500f---14637707298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af95e138816---zademo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/84752946355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_D04CD9F5EEE5F57E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894e68d4ec5---besavepotemukikukunudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807071e163e---lasadufijululapigibibamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/75121328085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+focus+the+oculory+in+mzulftPDF 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_off00012166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12166 17096 bytes
SHA-256: a05ad0a9d6af73d5a062ed552324af9447ab0b446da0279ee52e35b9ba24ed97
font_01_sfnt_off00014dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16611 10788 bytes
SHA-256: fd731527b14b03248cf7b8ff5f542e3fcb64a5122d1eada3ae6d3ca05ff041a9