Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1dbdb940987efc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-13 20:15:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 198c4fb17e7b9137ad498fc806637d39 SHA-1: f45a9e712bc9fa3b39017dfb4b47580171998fac SHA-256: ad1dbdb940987efc9090049fdc7803799ed2cda2fd535ae9a6e10fa53abf17f4
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhsu70k6l7m4tkdosj7nehks21/51105381508.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/49281184693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/42740580047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e3i.com/UserFiles/file///51758111579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdd2221cbf---lekuwuwuzoragegiziluwewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d2h2s7id1sot0c5bsios790f/tolosisejuterawiwuwebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/77131864851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/lafowixipowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/kafexafiwisopevijavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772707c8b7c---widajidijuguxivusose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/dibuzafokurevufadipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/30492772158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d478852112---7179741974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zotamivusetiwabaguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af21f943cf4---kabolixiraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpc18rqlfr3sqa12k2rgc74rm9/17755410584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d341e4cc150c1e06ffb3a22292d7de8/vafewuvomuligijeneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/xevumamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/14344801888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210602_E3C02DAEBF7208F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/lalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/16507100984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2acef32b2---deratosulovetekupevurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=reading+comprehension+strategies+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_off0000f607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF607 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 02b59d5b4f00255e93f738681c7ea47ae8979d841cc8e4e475fef13e61bc884a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5B 16948 bytes
SHA-256: fe90c700c1c9248f43d913c280caefeecbf1b79c8448eacc6a5b4a804fcf7812
font_02_sfnt_off00013b16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1