Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b236946fcb91ef02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:03:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6347b034501f0432e77f960a8973f42a SHA-1: cc084a252be57073e0c6f08dd0332d227aba3ba1 SHA-256: b236946fcb91ef02ad6eb9263497592138ade56cd035e2adb75b03121dca586c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/94658041023.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/18364989554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faad1746ab4---78447302069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/96901936312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bb21d2ce9fd3af554ceba891481009a/kerabexitirenosoroladiguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/fidigejakabavedefewapejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61060187138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/zejowikukuxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents//files/65370230980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d370439e---30963348786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/65873961128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f81cdaa743---wikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0b93b8ef328773d04c7e0821f6fbb29/90246827216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/faganepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc4c16862b59127345216f186c3cdb7a/6300659116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/32526747742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f99cn3ggs0pvapqjjpl12f0i9/penumedodudifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolbandibileklik.com/resimler/files/fivalepugafivokuxusiziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/xufefefozuvolewigofemuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0266b0f779a5ca7d78a5819c292ee287/46881006050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///vivutuzixinekalupebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e551015df1a---bakupomodunikekadotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americusfelderfamily.com/clients/0/0c/0c5e5e27a4da9db51eb23c24aa0fa274/File/pinepaminore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janatalnajaf.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/53353241414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=black+dog+guitar+tab+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_off0000c4d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4D0 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 180537d4a34eb3ecfca5c457b2868fba56fe9f383a06b983d1a17b25bcb8723e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDF 10776 bytes
SHA-256: c7a4dd40bb54eab616d930dfdd409ecb540af21787be212f9d812269666dbc09
font_02_sfnt_off00010667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10667 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1