Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2b49c6f1274d107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-08-05 18:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b60ce9dcb2f4f8fdcdf61423e5cea5b1 SHA-1: ade280a96beecd94c7803c446e674763783e6b9d SHA-256: d2b49c6f1274d107d02d55ac059464012ff1d801da3c8c37a7e9d084e4d6a05c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating an attempt to obscure the true destination of the links.

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 https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af938d01f37---bebidonanaxukevutotodikog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/42815391932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/sipolobodukiribabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6g6jnbgjuudqqgihmjpih5j9g/29319310470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr4kbfdl2ulpk8kukgad15o58i/49579664296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736248213e79c3ca504b86be7f5c4527/44315356473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/97842221856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/losamalutulazimevitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9301a4de3---rojirorufiwexifode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983446be23e---47934507520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d97fee30ad1e83ba78ef1000cc3984a8/taniwirenajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/fugajopukimigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160f0495d25846---46697671911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f0d77f894acdafc2d14c38cabc1f6c/tebizizibesiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o444qbttka9t5i10ln3ardu3v6/7902034526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/gazuxozuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/dixixupimubarufavidojix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa118f7ffad---nomunikuwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d08c93aee---bulagusuletawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffff2b9dab9---91489011957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e26360cff---71385414090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4b157533a---59756768190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/pijofetafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f09caff14---41271282505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=google+play+free+download+for+pc+windows+10PDF 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_off0000fd87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001159e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159E 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 48bc81cb31b61c936ee9b1ae839e098560f07cf0b1d0d7a9f7640f1eecf272d8
font_02_sfnt_off00012f95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F95 32052 bytes
SHA-256: ff0ffa0bd0c8d7ab099aa1856a1320e7a9fb901060b19ff805af0d679cf0b380