Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e228aed28dea5e25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:34:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6b7fdd2ee034ff7a125c0a7a742d104d SHA-1: 9527cee9f05cb470940df3bf2712c885790a26a0 SHA-256: e228aed28dea5e252b570b8d4794ba1b1515cb7ae8b80bbb05deffd496ac1425
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves JavaScript to redirect users to malicious sites, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27cc900792dcbe2e075d2fcbbab649f6/4645525427.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/pipinawujosivezida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145473071b83---60077439446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/4653830959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/jowobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddmmaze.altruistictech.org/documents/img/upload/files/tagokexutujize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/98744561258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/64721494433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/33044408807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/xepejafuritewagirelagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/38557477386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/zaxisemujimepujalitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/85085239241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blgjad.com/upload/files/dowasodixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c65b393e34---10043623326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/tuboxazakipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesgo.de/userfiles/file/foxolutokisufefidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/24486438780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/bulisetubodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/gajuzebuzikafagevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/bazelepunamovekesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=como+nao+atualizar+apps+automaticamente+androidPDF 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_off0000d277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD277 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA89 18888 bytes
SHA-256: 44aefcf505b99bf46ad2cc88a8203c8c4f21813774f919f0a110545b13ad9c39
font_02_sfnt_off00011b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B61 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 96a7a950c2be7144201fc02ed1f81d84012dcbfdf59cb322107f386bce47e534