Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e34e17badabc2da1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 572e25bdf853a28a3ccfc51d14292533 SHA-1: 2e03cf64f83ac97c729c7d0bf573a3354c483ffd SHA-256: e34e17badabc2da1f8b8bd18e78752df540cd1f1dbe9f25ffcd4d75b93cccd90
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the compromised CMS upload link heuristic indicate a high likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/dusaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a53c78f6f---tebopisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775b58bfe7d---vuzupanukikavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luathoanghuy.com/uploads/files/66203498052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/sukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/maxuvizup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3d638675a---95087311830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/kodize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b689c75bc90---tifurixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210728003702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidegarapuliseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/99947946366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/79156758550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df983e8c969---10470536642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/52159517131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/17114823376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/jonunixuxifepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/95673933431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/raxofugazopuvasaxoditir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tefiwexodibebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/48498969181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/66483612320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77147714884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72200779887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=find+saved+password+on+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_off0000cfb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB2 19204 bytes
SHA-256: 1a161799836fa07ef3e9e86af8c5b23485d07357d6858c8072225f58bb05b215
font_01_sfnt_off000101f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F0 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 0f6022250dad2fb60a9229b4711f400a65b052f726a46ae290a7221faf1610f9
font_02_sfnt_off0001197c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1197C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1