Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea22e59dca025e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:22:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1a496eb38c97742c302c1a34632d80ed SHA-1: 276eafb2385b0a71bb2bea2c71ad86a6c9b61ec1 SHA-256: cea22e59dca025e42f90b82638c90e6859a3218fb8798b60eba8e657915eacb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which are likely used to host malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically a phishing or trojan distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=red+ball+4+download+apk
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5d4398dbf---12870120440.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7219480ae---1293244211.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b50f5de11bd---65110361086.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c34135bbc---nademejexu.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ag31idtlch1end7l4obg2u8ng/wikixopit.pdf
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/36374966352.pdf
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/delofi.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f39bb4b2ec---96774947844.pdf
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/garagul.pdf
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/52514907040.pdf
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/zusub.pdf
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/56608414317.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7299bf167---zagarolidurugava.pdf
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/fajobifiwanulipamimoxivo.pdf
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/56287737236.pdf
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/93039900067.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46807e63ae18558fb7471d82f6ed7128/41905977100.pdf
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561ef4c92314d25c68d91d4273c28503/givisudejejabemifav.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfce685670---torelamulikiwugu.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/zomuteb.pdf
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/supozapurapewo.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210505140747669.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5928e251c9---miwimitofijonidijawer.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d805d083440361b8aeb8c478c30e45/ravexukojodowuvafazor.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4813585a05---83421426914.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0c7a81c6a7---getenenopemilid.pdf
    • 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_off0000df04.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF04 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f71b.bin
592638978380b23cd912034ce600853e4f31b1e3456f138987a5073d42f7d453
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF71B 10368 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e83.bin
0c487d6b9e5935ff133a656cf8fa68fe99449c3ca94d765a5d030a3ce03cd704
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E83 17328 bytes