Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e22270cb05521b34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 46619abebf47672dd6bf534d4091b1c1 SHA-1: b72c2ce578d4dda080cefb9e8b6a202fe1d1c76c SHA-256: e22270cb05521b3409f328d199e3f207a096dc1229727178167d511d31239ed1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF documents hosted on various websites, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The primary purpose seems to be to lure users into clicking these links, potentially leading to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nth+term+arithmetic+sequence+formula
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msr1ovsulrpfu9h9ii21gt0kkn/80987516691.pdf
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/genalifonafexiv.pdf
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/57560198744.pdf
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/butavijetenupigoxujelu.pdf
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/mivonaxixubexukoje.pdf
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/22380881930.pdf
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23bc253a4b0dcd0961f259fff834a184/31799619485.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eefe54704f---xikejijixugetupobivos.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9610d1e56---kinuxifosotiz.pdf
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/goxizupasexof.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f049f19a291b3d4201c38bfcb99c105d/makitebepewifaxefe.pdf
    • http://huntland.hu/upload/file/65270865573.pdf
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/805e5c17749d04a50b895aa884bebb3b/63920750292.pdf
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/67243536722.pdf
    • http://faithartists.com/clients/877397/File/fafalaforirupugan.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7469aaf75---ronemi.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609057fadbaca---wekebired.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08105b0a8a8acf2c08d71a7a2e5c5b6e/pugevexumi.pdf
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/37862385843.pdf
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/89787612856.pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/dezomoku.pdf
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210705041013.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it9lp6gun0b5p1igqd6fvqtkl3/74800699630.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_off0000f280.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF280 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a97.bin
60c4e82f8d8e8ecc8e850e8a4a5f3cf3b0a4c6d67749ebf57c8ff78cb752caf1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A97 10824 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001236b.bin
d7a41fda6013ec950885ca99812b0d5ba214b40a47cbff05472256f273d0086c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236B 17548 bytes