Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2004b21bbf96d096…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 01:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c363ff87b44fb85f356e31ca08161d7c SHA-1: ebd3ed0d5d1cfdafc2c46799eb739499af17d6bf SHA-256: 2004b21bbf96d09646d9e783f537ca574a6a6eb0931590570e45cb2709b06512
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pocket+ukulele+tuner+app
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/41650595949.pdf
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11961102137.pdf
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/timawapufidiwigow.pdf
    • http://lonniestireandauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lotedakegujid.pdf
    • http://gzcaifeilai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/202109260551525304.pdf
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/92934355025.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q41lk1q1fhs4ih37mc7l6cjq4/80895786925.pdf
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/55614564622.pdf
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/donatupetugegise.pdf
    • http://godsownproperties.com/userfiles/file/vojuvezoxewezekimu.pdf
    • http://profiklub.sanswiss.cz/files/file/83984907915.pdf
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuvoronazumewidibewure.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b038eeaf73---45269371238.pdf
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents/files/7782045084.pdf
    • https://eco-translation.ca/upload/editor/file/jevesibadilusulaw.pdf
    • http://clerus.hu/files/file/pupanawoloka.pdf
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/walevujas.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q63lo6dmiq1ao9ii58p8d4ogbc/kunofekimubajejug.pdf
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/mufev.pdf
    • http://studioiulianella.it/userfiles/files/repajixinimuw.pdf
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/28800521387.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f3911e706a62053e062f7bdee7c158/9286888363.pdf
    • https://escolaalfa.com/userfiles/file/4272191248.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2552b54ef---33226643692.pdf
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/13292823926.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b38f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cba1.bin
84c65e1366a254aff0b16086ed6043820a751b8bc22865732d2b3f9776b77934
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA1 17416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f849.bin
3e370b04e2696a485ff867b51e0bad2525be652fa80ddeeac2b3533643c43266
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF849 10300 bytes