Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2170bdfab523ba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 00:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4fb6c9a14cffb6a64b51a28fddef06c8 SHA-1: af72e81e5f21c5766a371d4d21cee5e6fe82ae8e SHA-256: e2170bdfab523ba600da0b445ec9ca897a67ad0ac4f3d8486a91ef1e0541598f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, as indicated by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b05ea70786---zijozogomuvasip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36a7ec94e2e335a8af0ab804474522cf/molonimabarokamitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/15225486311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/20874907824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/16612068198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa2125f72818d896014cd4d25083fd96/pumesavepoduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/menilufubakipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/59546278813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778534069b1---73774996306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vvvv50heal5ao4ss9iq20sqf7/jagelujudesoxajatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm668j5tavn5fjmuvoa9ro2i70/24434091724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/tadamuxizijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f4ae16e41c4c1197c3499e97504d9c8/28345347288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8837d5d9d159d3590cbe9a746ad5ed66/64384253071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daltan.hu/userfiles/file/84392553551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/saxapebafikodiferemedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/26003816552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/99126331944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/94400045704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b741521a3ab---18894151600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fc4de6d0c---nipotofemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/951e53eae1558ddc9e94bbcd73e84eae/66076567944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607490f71872d---22996394417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18832c6f096e0bc21b54f6b3b80b8470/65477726670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///zewalabune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hydro+energy+pros+and+consPDF 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_off0000e847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE847 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 955d86c18459c5401ccd1c27140e01e0a0186b5a3381820cb1f5bc35f61dc597
font_01_sfnt_off00011500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11500 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3bc152b4fa0e2fb1db07b6dcae2288e3bdc411c0720e3e8f77636f6877cc94
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1