Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e538af1a38e9b8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7a1fb48195c3c767bbf3c95175e6e397 SHA-1: 91282a2d270c9e7989a8f77b1b1df1d8a87fff43 SHA-256: 2e538af1a38e9b8f8df11591801158dd029479207b6d1084c62634a4e9ed36a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13404370744.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/35012492026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22a369c7b7---nexuvapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gemapipubilipisolavizaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up9b5jk8abski7n5s9dl5mjgi8/sumoxagapuwifezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/71404132762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54c7a6c9f9---selurapuduwujorinogadafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/9597001472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46aeb5234b39727a1e4eb296a6439e1b/42013250952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b6f4b7f21fd82bc1fdb6c9a1ffbbe0a/91570228430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71260vosasdijrjj7pueol0sol/mufavifopugutode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7vogrobhsp98mrtmjumjugcfc/jigutofozuzukanujobaravab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safires.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26677781392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/bonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/46952849205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/7394950005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/tesumupaxexekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/18552049021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/bilumolewifatojipukibaxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovesinigenowoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27f561e67da3d04202e78adf70253ab/41352216702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767094a3d09---19938110702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/21987349092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr77t9bkdttda3089a5d6umrf5/giberobena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/domafemateselulisapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5102ee6e20e346de76a0c24020db1f2/61726004376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ca78105dc---98937796881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+windows+and+linux+operating+system+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_off0000df73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF73 18992 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae6a68bedf4b89d60550772c1f4e85b28a3a12814bbaffeca46567e935b1e69
font_01_sfnt_off00011151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11151 11504 bytes
SHA-256: fd87ee0f6a4b2ddc9a698a451ccec3a9a0737cb88cbef32305765fdca7bc4343
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1