Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 489e35be7198a5a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3783d22eab9fd892d9b77a88375c7a36 SHA-1: ab219fc9b26fde45cd7ca17acf467cdca0ff059d SHA-256: 489e35be7198a5a203a6a163623110b3dbfc02310394d9eef3185bcc2b60c76b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojanized PDF. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The malformed stream length heuristic indicates potential exploitation of PDF parsing vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://18554080.com/userfiles/file/redoronividepixinopinizu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729fea54deb---8970301746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d56673d180bb34439c83928a5c248b3b/ropevaretifofupuzoxetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/77008461229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blsfamilyreunion.com/clients/1/11/11e20eb1c47c3498ff3e66fc1941d138/File/61434624160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7532487984---28808777545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rm2r5a5gsmtpf4vbrmt0ege60/najemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tspinstruments.com/cache/fck_files/file/33376517557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/lodofabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/23589119832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38a91e7e8fb06d295cc6eb582574809/7578180757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/7159439151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/vaributa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkrnrguhp5cqdrkial9ipuambi/midawonasijenijigufexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcd8a4add3---60076456672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicom.pl/userfiles/file/kaxiwujakewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/gijagugeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/fawakujosebifaramido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xudukoviseperasajamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/jabilivisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3aad2cb0b0---24965311022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/vozupesepiromema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32961ba2fe5893005215e2682cb28593/73518270588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n62i5di2v80c8rkaufo1523j90/8444870678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/werozujajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquet-cortes.fr/data/Files/zulibakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+manually+insert+page+numbers+in+word+2016PDF 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_off0000d772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD772 11628 bytes
SHA-256: ecb33e31dc2b3a0b2e3ed3e92cc5907188af6e0f7e2445e87224870817e74d3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BD 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 637fb4f893798757f3f5dd8a26e40fd96498eb280d0eeb2cad5dca581a5cf702
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1