Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2e8e014f85ed0fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-08-18 11:25:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 23935d98a8859d875d8a1c8731d6d5c8 SHA-1: 35dd426e2617d9f9be3cc3f9b4b68cbadca38340 SHA-256: c2e8e014f85ed0fcc3e38b5e4b483ed050217e83d14d38d506c107395d5cd308
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://ahchala.com/img/file/29433392489.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiolaviano.it/userfiles/files/19440569790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vokitewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b02705355---77004373768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48701850936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/vapafozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trans-serwis.com/userfiles/file/tovezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/85736395041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/febop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/solumojapajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d61430cc765---xanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/karijilusiretewitoneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/febegesojesojavune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/xukore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff68a3136d29a90c3f18f2c09bbeb354/taluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/64820705182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/rufogozedepevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/siribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c12ed099343cccdc4d58f98f6754171/15246854378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112250adb9f7---katesowuresamikuwufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/11701752984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde565e3d1---tadageda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16579355502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21cf12ff0b74e40285cd5b5f95655c8/kipojagikaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+invest+in+cryptocurrency+canada+redditPDF 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_off00010728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10728 18352 bytes
SHA-256: d5f27f796e2fc14d08a6e98c80c875f966438403cb3dff2c814851737d31080e
font_01_sfnt_off000136f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F4 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 18803aef598267bfbaec87ef3332ed93a50035308853a3fa34f42ee00be0ea51
font_02_sfnt_off0001501e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1501E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1