Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 914ebaa6229f397f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 09:54:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5976108f7d64f0f715dbd79a919d0ae0 SHA-1: b193c31d88a76318fc619a0daad5ee9792690fe4 SHA-256: 914ebaa6229f397f69d2eb444db0837d3da8a0d30fb6a7701dfb8e688a1b36f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://silverbirdmarketing.com/pages/images/file/gulibamirubev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2iq5jo0s00lqansrt8v0ujcuo/45582278445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invision.buzyhub.com/files/xowuzudiralozejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/6145824559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lobuxagewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd60fe58a6---pedowijesarigibowasudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/wipotaresasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a43c20aca---6611083915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364a324761f---73946568564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pp-aqua.com/userfiles/files/838168378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/tejowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bojvftl1ai4od4gig6vs7f8d1/66505170989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/35034980875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14618374757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgallery.devctn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawotunarudigobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/modulexawogavagevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/25346185233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theloanwala.com/userfiles/file/wevaludugugajoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbc454c36c---newubugitebajitijuxipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekufuselujiwitafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/62824344734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndc-group.ru/uploads/files/jewagukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/pizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog/file/fotuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=omegle+2020+apkPDF 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_off0000d879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD879 10272 bytes
SHA-256: a8a92c179a3e73acace9329526877453420bff9765a62ef8207cd2f3af8b7f33
font_01_sfnt_off0000efab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BD 20292 bytes
SHA-256: f4c5ddb1d07c7aba67c648f932a128c202598d5ab5b0484a9c3f9667c50f071b