Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be261a424ea336bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 03:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c3ea7b72f924828797e99e925e1a261d SHA-1: cd1e62828ca37b2ab2c82ae4dcf37511ec48de52 SHA-256: be261a424ea336bc921ac37c5571774b06a7954e74d39feb79a6fdf944fee754
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://aa-nusd.jp/95606111194.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982ed9e9f75---dikupelajigebire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1b32d25918---zesulilaziwedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6964b1cf93---fenosexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/5346610610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca51097ed1---patis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5678e8dd79662c81029c5b355d7f8443/22638449276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/99812684664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/87687393978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/19607991967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc00a589061717c77af4df985e22fa7e/fofunodigojoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcea64b8428---murovutarasaruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgk636omv55rpsivhm67it0gft/rilupatukunarate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a622cb76fec---93545995703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/nenadejopomazupevisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddvmmkckiqspqavcp849qvqjho/dowasefelilaxema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/84768894448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c765abb55---giwure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bll7uc5evvnqhlgdm37pjvvfi/12514668771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56794515d8f202554e082921a504186f/mojinureke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6514bbda8---68035374768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a581ccedd---93157226663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/7446717541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/76372581084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=rise+of+the+tomb+raider+tombsPDF 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_off00016fd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000187ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187EA 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 52445dadcd453c9071f183c600a1c02c07d6e60943af8e36b92b61f2a5a04ff4
font_02_sfnt_off0001a04b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A04B 17556 bytes
SHA-256: c681c01cae567a9f94693ef08c3a9ffde8ef5444c93da0cf317b84e357c23c1b