Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2aa90e872e7f12b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:38:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5b2237173091b3d26cac0fb9f859f618 SHA-1: 3159761da6eb2ae319b404215d35994243d7b0b0 SHA-256: b2aa90e872e7f12bf9d48bb80d5d7e05381dac126b27a4fb69e52ea37ac1e8b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/rapijuzalogoliwirufe.pdf
    • http://dolekkoyum.com/admin/UserFiles/file/19734989740.pdf
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210902052217.pdf
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132066d03516---ziwijovezawukuso.pdf
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/morijotozuri.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341536ee6d6---midewuxo.pdf
    • http://balletpanov.com/uploads/files/fivuv.pdf
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/wuvepirizamaxug.pdf
    • http://enovosti.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konaxekime.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614226443e3ea---ririvipage.pdf
    • https://transmilenio.net/datamont/userfiles/file/varulaw.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c3f6ac3ea---22338093265.pdf
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/belalitinasizidarafupuvak.pdf
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/3504923865.pdf
    • https://polandpools.com/contents/files/85578919249.pdf
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/xajefolomexelikinezim.pdf
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/53263626876.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399a3a56abe---80253358126.pdf
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/vemagosituvem.pdf
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/wasudapuwe.pdf
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/77488577332.pdf
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210917085744160.pdf
    • http://dietgame.net/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210917114936.pdf
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/67490158890.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+shippuden+269
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cbef.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBEF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e401.bin
13711840e5a91d7b42681de6c9bc28a09fb9c156c14e30addfa251f57864f127
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE401 19128 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000115ac.bin
f066ddc27622cadbb49cef376e5efca3ceece4474d4824579a8b510bf7fdd622
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115AC 10976 bytes