Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2159200ce008574…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 406e3bb3ad4f256090ae070c5677f2e1 SHA-1: c27ef6a2b5a0580cd00f2df190eab94de09d08b9 SHA-256: a2159200ce00857401dc793e60f5495281344f98edbae94f05ffb20111084edc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdbea15c48ee77a2a04565cfc58463d8/85349305389.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d6090e5d0---bazorefagofoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f9cae298b---nigozekopuwivosenafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/bimeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fcbe198111d6ec31b0a046a1210ea87/41980323208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/15907068415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/40273367014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d56bb86def22f3f6dd123f0718582e36/30464679299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085311c0164d---fabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a83715e3d---95712264913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/berumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/jenurobajokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/92716191726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/zigikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9d398a5f8---15016711452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26582066521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegmsbihta.in/userfiles/file/maliturexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b6746865b2d1f1f3678a0260f1af504/83701567673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciela13.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/zibavifisanavosigufesudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d36cf611a05---26010290229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078689c4fcac---womigezikuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86588218107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgvrlqjhuhd6fr3gdfqc0nnsr1/besisudevunazemasuvojore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322d92e48d47cb335505b106455085da/wanidejebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=jaw+crusher+components+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_off0000dbb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB8 18604 bytes
SHA-256: ca180d5f3d01682c4a3769898be392ecd286cf6a846748886e4272b6d85fe82f
font_01_sfnt_off00010c01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C01 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 26110f8d7f6788b7cc6cf379f5c8385d1b38839e37069432913bd7fc34e6a77a
font_02_sfnt_off0001253f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1