Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e258a2db204ac8e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-04 00:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7b4bd6cab25354fc3669889452c2db64 SHA-1: e090fb515f5766aae566f3fee5878b364187df24 SHA-256: e258a2db204ac8e64e2d2fd2ed261bec5d785652ee16964aeb42c207e3d21afe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad634de7f6---kogobupanif.pdf
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712705b9951---68876431010.pdf
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/muzexajumuvavewove.pdf
    • http://skia22.ru/pic/file/tanodovivuzub.pdf
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/25500922562.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-28/20210728123826577442.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0af9ac1fb7---26204662998.pdf
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/58350137426.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbae46e458---xizovawi.pdf
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/zifojowitadobabixesi.pdf
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/16797580586.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/tukaxolavelepijutidorarer.pdf
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/8943354566.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bc10e009f---rajefaz.pdf
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/88549014404.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097dfba4cb2c---99466107011.pdf
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9274563cd1367a9d72b36a7cc5bb86b9/56989868318.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2cef141f0d7f0535c1aec0f4ec6ea0c/watonuluseneririvofete.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b84bef85db50ad06ee42a447803ea7c/fuvozarazafe.pdf
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021061516453773499.pdf
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/vupozewezonibijubuvazoni.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+crumple+tie+dye+hoodie
    • 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_off000101b9.bin
f217c918a21ef62a15a988e3965e37ed38eb27f3021424f59f80791121bae900
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B9 17444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012f5d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014774.bin
c961ffb48bc3995459f04a78ee15f575217a0043ff364e51dd316da2e67c30c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14774 10888 bytes