Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de2b24a77190558a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-29 22:49:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 52901cd23359dbfbbb82bbfc492424d9 SHA-1: ee8e7724ea5f72c7548b9fe9537031e520175181 SHA-256: de2b24a77190558a528f6c9b3c33e56e8bf2bc725285714389713fb103719192
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised domains suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755ffa5248f---tokam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h549p46be5skncdu5m47urcj3/wafexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd8963e73808780b6c12b74abcd5b64e/57737329707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f18290b59ed9b7efcd2a1cd01d8d5da/lobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2119f70033---36785693971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa5007d4a6---gizujinunavitesugabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafoto.de/img/upload/files/noferofufesaranosawoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///bikumibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kulabuzapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/79739188406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43990edf56---gosajosutulikoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fb7411c98---20638591502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0ac86ad5925a2b9e0ec5b5b3adb0909/xolowoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b9348131d---43382025174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/lapulawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/fokulofitejelarunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee20c5d36fe5035dca06634b72234cb/70771431469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d00897df95---29660459493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7890803e32d072f9f804c38861df3eda/sewepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7bff0d6ac9---nexomebesimajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myesen.life/userfiles/file/10507148603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usfmqr59clqgvb457lucq7900o/39091896642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/72092832663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e755b8be34d999480f2461d095df7301/17377799208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/kenibonazozesitefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=funcion+exponencial+ejercicios+resueltos+con+graficaPDF 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_off0000eced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECED 19396 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd9d477cfc0be69a8acff8e67a5b1402cd1cc0e900bbbf024af402f10a66c84
font_01_sfnt_off00011fb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137CA 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 46230e6a5837c852257433d1d00ae8370b71e423feb419d164afd852602d0ae4