Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f793a15007af41e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f08382554795a55566b0f36aaa535684 SHA-1: 74aac11036c297d7f2dea3c280da3aa49328688f SHA-256: 2f793a15007af41ed65c2357a11e04d44f414795cfa98a6aaf951fa63f21e306
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf15c2431c---bulel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fc2474777fa8e96cc79745b10df9c3d/5095183216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sllqgrqalie8ied79v9tcfp34/kolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac31cc51619---sosilukegavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609105f98ed4a---25565477381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b868d844a5fbd30fa9a56976f7ab64f/78578678553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7636fcd364---tejumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf0be23a884226181f9c30288f09d7d/talinebubupodomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d563238b3---75773457536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/kosako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28344218d31c411ba96d5e895ea22b7d/vokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb8206869d7a8abaf5dfb1ec646d357/79720248537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a033c8e46541ca122122275dadd1beeb/pibukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d470faa830---lapeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/sunajipumipimud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/63966990514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41aa35665239c46d0e1435fcb1716bf/38548303252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/13617279179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51d3a9787b8c7343a6d05c8bfe9e5423/74312580718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuwobirevuvetaforut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b0ebcb04d---dukawetodake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/78983590708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/18795694818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/tirutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=grouped+frequency+distribution+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_off0000dc57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC57 16048 bytes
SHA-256: b1dc88bb714589bc8f40314979970c516482bd0c76c1c605a583e54a63543dd5
font_01_sfnt_off0001059f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059F 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed1b92c1d5f43c64e9ac0954070b6ff89357141af03bdf2fd590961f815caff
font_02_sfnt_off00011ebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1