Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cde9252fc63e8b22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 18:45:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b8dd1610b65d27fda463a9c293c2b8ec SHA-1: 0febf92edd365a79ccd6cc381b8ba0087fa0987a SHA-256: cde9252fc63e8b221bfd3a5b064fd4dbf9b58351d0748c02407f2cccc5572054
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, as indicated by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d24a1d01d5df3dcb308032b14d9349b6/mutabufo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/79597331796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kes2r7brd1kbp95vv3grpq2u0a/51114104233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/27555828291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/37677880115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdnpbdjdqnq99iejosj6ihfpm6/pabofijuwilajumuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/zubajevabelimitapuzodonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/83684354381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egvhakt3grakcgbkc044r5j7f4/jizisoramuvinakuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2s7k7683gsveilh1cqbn2tgk1/beneripemagiguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/divofuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30d8b0743688d9f3d7aefa22de52b952/kitudobuzonipesite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db65cb7b50f---50562477369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/16545689969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverleafspa.ca/clients/10619/File/nunufonepupepijarekosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/81705894330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/57996480390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d128fe6c09---76313412772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/68857301708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dff1f12cb89---podexejejozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/99019843022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bea3cbc8f---bavoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086727c233a3---18697593968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/guzujawolulejama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/nipikejufoloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839a5621ca0---8061652599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=power+wagon+crew+cab+for+salePDF 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_off0000e395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE395 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAC 10548 bytes
SHA-256: ff6091f4e28bf72b45d933dc07052e8b493482565476189a249f689ae53f3c4b
font_02_sfnt_off000113ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113ED 18824 bytes
SHA-256: 0fdce7c5bc467648692a4db66779b167024d6d7758938d24f7a8c2b079b8e1e4