Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2e51b6a0c2deb3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-18 07:55:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7e1b9ee81b86b8183319e9b2dceedd1f SHA-1: 3ea914489dfbe90d3a02b6f962f88b6bb28226d5 SHA-256: a2e51b6a0c2deb3ed52951b1cc69c76d6d1359d7d9d1ae51e5af5b6998a0c801
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, many of which host PDF files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious content, likely a phishing lure or a downloader. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'patient record' or 'ielts listening answers' to entice users to click on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e9afe75d7---zutuwijuruguledigajole.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080135459340---dimefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f94b9b5e81---82671381650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/84382603478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3334fa499fc5d7e9483342a57105da06/4227300633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68fe5c9fe6a6e2738efd4da05f17ade6/86038795612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dd61b68ff---98550729042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/gawewededij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d0a0c3eeb55bbf86e761db1d8e7e4b8/witafagilavinifasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8971c1921a---50358159518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentosalbatros.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c72978edf7---85321211688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/27652922436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/6603568474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f474bd9769---65277288607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072163a355ba---rupitudapomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608914ee2c05f---degifimadutufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/wamadodukelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=patient+record+ielts+listening+answersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB39 4988 bytes
SHA-256: a5badd35038e81e822b73b793052a249cd61a8fad07eae27552511564cea0ac9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC38 11312 bytes
SHA-256: e0d32ed09b837dd87996e46e67afbbe4c57c4a653bbd029f489ec469b18c8dd6
font_02_sfnt_off00011279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11279 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378