Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f546f1d7cc9af93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 07:44:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1a2f7fb036a06113b7170b7fa054e65a SHA-1: 303f5ac9035efa0a5fd8f74dd9e6d48ac4eaff50 SHA-256: 2f546f1d7cc9af937c2feb8c9afe9967184ecc48673c19369cd64b3f7a1d92dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded links are the primary indicators of compromise, suggesting the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/55707895546.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a43168d18dc9f0ee442166259bb48b01/13802735537.pdf
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/35107636693.pdf
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/41028600311.pdf
    • http://tianlanlawyer.com/filespath/files/20210921112606.pdf
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021092217430218400.pdf
    • https://senegal4d.com/contents/files/bofetigezuziwadevati.pdf
    • http://budropol.de/Upload/file/zewabewetujeribezijej.pdf
    • http://jeyadhurgatemple.com/userfiles/file/72325395011.pdf
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144353665f0a---fitifatubimifetudixu.pdf
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/29934250985.pdf
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/25978110726.pdf
    • https://etevent.itweald.com/uploads/files/6137629b8d120.pdf
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/93337798859.pdf
    • https://dakhoathienhoa.net/images/files/getadexa.pdf
    • https://deltaguvenlik.net/userfiles/file/zananekukoboxazomigojamo.pdf
    • http://mos-craciun-inchiriere.ro/fckfiles/file/bivupilaruvateguk.pdf
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/34650697135.pdf
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14787051027.pdf
    • https://best-of-geldanlagen.de/userfiles/file/75647396105.pdf
    • https://aayams.com/userfiles/file/57090975021.pdf
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9936ee3d920a55cc6287fbce5a32237e/85923696197.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cloud+computing+for+machine+learning+and+cognitive+applications+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000aef7.bin
454115057c73bc378c5e39df02df6bc36b55d0be6b40eba1848d99bd29234d5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEF7 11264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c908.bin
3997b6703d4c92c4bd96c42c3990dccebc0f6f19f3eaa5fc489e7568d0e17597
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC908 16832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f359.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF359 16792 bytes