Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e253ae29e789e68e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 09:36:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6d87413e115da343d4d5dc5c1a6baea8 SHA-1: 4ec9c9aa500476fe997366902f0e113579a46a3b SHA-256: e253ae29e789e68ed9caff55f3afe8c763dca84a38cca992e31af0b5aabab17b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF hosting links on compromised CMS uploads points to a common tactic for distributing malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e9f6a6656bac32691b0242dafbe8811/603050993.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigugupovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cf5d721d4---19996549441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b618672ca2b---batumipalezuvoliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/kuverusize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fbcc56e93---49513846581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22e2f5f5b3---xupumavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/95944148208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///wumirufajazefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/fexesumibikesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f009450614804be41b03b9fb788058/9568361905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouqljcimg3irf1p9ub5atk6pa6/jibekenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taipeitccia.org/CKEdit/upload/files/42318958543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40eafb950114db0804a85c51774fbc3a/vuvotife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/34112478980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvmuhvucb06r8e78ulksmj3e77/20899337174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2norlrp561cau85dh5pah95id/20786136999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7d710cba6---zonexatesipitalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/422512e722e24fe65fcfbdaf63b4bd06/kivijuzetezujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/60267185892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5e2aa04ed---dutuvurusilobozixizemaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/jumigixasuvusukovuvejuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fd58a3039---85280639391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3441c711005613078c7fbfd518a6fb7/15850839158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971b564233c---10122012194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a65df2f97556ec05c37c7bd4496e02/gizunexijogamuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=check+my+driving+licencePDF 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_off000110f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F5 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 1efbeafdc9c948324725369f7becc48ebed8aeff3310b5e9ff9958fbe5bad841
font_01_sfnt_off00013fd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000157ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157ED 10572 bytes
SHA-256: f82c4cec55f1ff91c4f1357027422ab4978b97b2e60e264f89ce8691e9b96f67