Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de902b3acdf1d6e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:45:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b70af4a0af77bf541c35addb3cf1deb5 SHA-1: cbd4b776e1f176770aa7b46365770d780ac600c3 SHA-256: de902b3acdf1d6e062042f1520d4af4c40a1b82015f340123793e5ebab20c9bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites and potentially malicious files. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests an effort to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+on+expectations+from+others
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b37913e8a963141eef2fb875907ec9/nuvinuwefob.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779d36df4b0---kubabedude.pdf
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/mudadutuwusago.pdf
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da4f754f7b2b1dddd0695158f6beacb/36707885246.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d223117bea---xisukipabazasob.pdf
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/zepalomaluliwu.pdf
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/45670491420.pdf
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d98a2a586c---lejusunogagig.pdf
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1622840248.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3aac5c7591---mugarub.pdf
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/281524568584.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00dd46d5f6a63f1d9ecda355856eaa17/80185938046.pdf
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/41618723867.pdf
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/pozosopedafu.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63484e9fd0---budopeku.pdf
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210522125604.pdf
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/webixe.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7547b38f4---lowisufu.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f20cfb4a3a3da7c90f2a2d632467c6/53495940904.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sfthk8eitk14bomb5frj1q66g/11039840372.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c061380bf41---34280458139.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88bb8a946cb1dda7fdc18cc8c66449f9/86838392549.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_off0000fd0e.bin
cf2e94174a8fab5cf3515e2e3bb0fe74c459c3bb8f19087bb2475cbb97d35df0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0E 17112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012998.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12998 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000141af.bin
2d07ab25cec4166bdbc58ba7e4e50f1c16cc89c776842debb660d3c499fd07c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141AF 10960 bytes