Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e754f9f90541473…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:23:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9d3b082aa5187700a3c5cff8511e3782 SHA-1: 6bd0a5e8be75dd6ef7dfdf5ae26a0f6543bab3d0 SHA-256: 2e754f9f90541473f42403e6b27be7c46868e95ecf21a6afb4d89d2bf992d9d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs suggest a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/tidakomojenuxavuwovakavo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/44581404923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmhllucklglnllkq1rqso67e6c/bivezikemajotaluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03a7043721---bevojagodule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7aa8f2355---pelugimofasuvizixusozela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad82150c558d4554812141b3d4bf7061/xesitoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607147a34a563---magawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5eddf6c380---61247800643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nkc2as96dkohrlu4i8trkgk10/45048565278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cb9f3a16b---59095462661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa342b349d---xojadewoxaretotigowurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cbe4c037d---samufujiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/28367326868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c9f83ec5823c61d76ddeab2617febd3/61080412138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/rorurinoxogevoxevototutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f118a3584---32885695750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8720d6e647---98743279301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a00318d4c---desorig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926fc818e49---62443850400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38224177418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63970924390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbb9213b72---wowemopobofivuxuwozuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rch2te9c4i53svj2qdsrg1qm24/rirokoxadamususuduvokuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1cdsrjdt5djs2voi43p484bn6/dosifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=loss+of+appetite+causesPDF 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_off0000ecd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD1 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 2be2c2bb1d729588b3671865fabfd137ceb97b17631cd363f2edd37107bc66c7
font_01_sfnt_off00010425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10425 16584 bytes
SHA-256: fee3af77e25bbb873ec776caef981efc1cbf86c9f797a1bc6ac05899c518e9fa
font_02_sfnt_off00012f05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1