Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e598848d11cb832…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:05:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 99fd5b82a84829236159fbc2d81e56d2 SHA-1: c923676ab54dcce0163dd81b9310f20f46eb4c44 SHA-256: 2e598848d11cb832bada0d042f7f08fb6ad238c868363b6c52ccf57593faa5bc
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 WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=siemens+nx+tutorial+deutsch+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc47bf407d9a64ac673baf3ff41f2173/xirobalezuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qot1iemb4ckgoq65qtaj7qvmvj/wogujixufaxobawinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xylemleads.com/userfiles/file/66077495764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/292186079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/90680592523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/34781283996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/nopaxipejogejivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/deditutowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l68vm92pqtbv1mqffufsb7d1i/sukebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/1461103446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdb6bc4cf7---voturajosuketoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82eaad1be86940c29137112f3b3a29f4/nezuvunagiluvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er08b2cgesud46qbrcul6vgu48/31350153563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ada1b87f---44422620848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021071516010273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/44301345247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9626f97862---14625173832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613328140836c---jotorupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c171140419105f865f4a41aa791100/15298151204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e361aa1ef5f95af1a7d4582d4de88c9/79710846139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aabda2d53a99c1c9dc51b15f6725b88/wexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424p9ntfmp7nep5jdq5r3uifs0/bukajonujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elliptical-trainers.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jebodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e11654246---76053561324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkbbk635281eaohdlfc6tkpjp5/tosawuvexuvamawikovepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010b82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B82 11164 bytes
SHA-256: fea5b59c110ced68bc999c65a80ae0012e715e5d115d62ec45eac3d42fcfe45e
font_01_sfnt_off0001255b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1255B 20468 bytes
SHA-256: a9b98b861a9c34cb8f1c694cecd0142c8cd13d569d9bc060e3a52fa95dec4357
font_02_sfnt_off0001592a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1592A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1