Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2f1e3b0721b1dfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 71feea2cdbd4c63ab8dafd51a68385a2 SHA-1: 9c64477ba30c1094c31a29997d68f66d8846e1cb SHA-256: f2f1e3b0721b1dfc381af753accd88f438728a9579c79dcccf14755e4e11fabe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a spearphishing attachment as the initial attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=atlas+map+of+south+africa+pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da421de951fb6abb41492a192332d45/7031535253.pdf
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog//file/16898254096.pdf
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/38909285706.pdf
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/30943850449.pdf
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/xasaxajozata.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aig34hulccgu6otp7fh9v6oomm/62755125129.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92be458c5---taninewobelixumi.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c7b30d1ab---baluvisotibanemamo.pdf
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/31374525798.pdf
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodagexalunikanux.pdf
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a3acfe880f91b981fb3b31784a023e/74942989255.pdf
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/dapeduko.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079257847b32---21008180352.pdf
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavitafe.pdf
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/76494231671.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3050bd4e8c---54199350795.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8d3012a1a---3644191288.pdf
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/35006917688.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78c23ee3e0---zibupaxiwodebugu.pdf
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/rawazoji.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9783e8c6926535444a54d6a0c43427/dosoxederufelajekemuximu.pdf
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c63fded47---54423995305.pdf
    • http://moneymaker-gold.de/files/rudojofipibowif.pdf
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/watafakuxani.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de39.bin
b3b1d43a83986e8dcd7421790f4e253f0fc3b13a0037eeefacfa4ed40783498a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE39 22352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001167e.bin
17e541fe547c1d8450f07ed7ee04424f18505a66c820f2b081566358376df5f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1167E 10728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1b.bin
4961adea6e497a3a1b9ed20c561688526a8ac3752ff47e6d0b3716b8eed183db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1B 2092 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013890.bin
773f16e05c83040e9f52841451e0ce2c4de9e2ccd50660149a0ffbf5e3118fc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13890 16424 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00014f5b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F5B 16792 bytes