Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffe955d2fb4f78bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 20:57:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2422cfeb66617c0c756118f2aea09bf7 SHA-1: 3bf9dc60655e08eb081a0817b132f6c9826affb6 SHA-256: ffe955d2fb4f78bbc7a7f6280e5175b451f67adb532baf33064ec0045308f525
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of link farms in PDFs often involves JavaScript to redirect users, hence the inclusion of T1059.007. The primary attack pattern is likely to be phishing or malicious redirection, with spearphishing attachment being the probable initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90e467d7d583b1ac2f1c98f24e95300f/15858702282.pdf
    • http://erfaspot.com/resimler/files/44902793216.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607019018daae---85358450076.pdf
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/12671854793.pdf
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/947707590.pdf
    • http://edumedcare.pl/upload/files/xilakewigowaj.pdf
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/kuzizirajopirefegoka.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d487d822cec19ed149907388bb8b0c5/41748396163.pdf
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210528_142058.pdf
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/97285641326.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c049ca997a1---xaviloboxu.pdf
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/nimopuf.pdf
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2a0938b3a498fb5a35be84a48092d59/daponopedudevatuzilokevuw.pdf
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/vapejipuzewapipagi.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e85c4f388---95106801386.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qt0omc39h22np9pl0ajh0pd0h5/zogubisegebavoritexoje.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796c3476306b4c0e8db13777339f92a7/nirewitukaluwemivaluk.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d48c6344eda1430da912dac3ec807e/movapewusurazab.pdf
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/27671000813.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609411a52afc2---38411451132.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e3bd80088---jovusagirejezudazi.pdf
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21cddbabe0fe76e493789aa64df0414e/20074729417.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946b3a130b8---83112009433.pdf
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/fanig.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=8th+standard+social+science+book+back+questions+and+answers
    • 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_off0000eba0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103b2.bin
57c4676dde8dd5a47aae215f67b3f0fcd9726a1509f80741ab175644f3304879
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B2 16640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f20.bin
6b8f695f4377334700b57f41639c02d222e193eebcfa06a7ae723ac2b5f813bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F20 11144 bytes