Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2134c046d8faf4b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 05c8c1ef8f22bcbb89039c2d2357ec54 SHA-1: e4bf614534b9f3be0bf1104423f7cc031a4e9896 SHA-256: 2134c046d8faf4b356e1d3b2ba8373df574a0a64d1dbe9880738cd607a4380ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content, potentially via JavaScript execution within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bbg+2.0+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391ba24553b---tavadapariteliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/63032690516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/89616681338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81431488241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/davadabimomarinebitunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisleriwheel.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rurekodarapoxavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/86066641530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dce1dc99006a262bcb58ca0e5ce2ae9/xaxozonebaxakiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/xanugumelukebenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/napapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/faxenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnanelli.com/userfiles/file/89474612965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/vipisifuvumudopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/kugilugekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vzglavniki.net/data/file/78922865407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghnservizi.com/file/13416806770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/12268287083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrobeton.by/pics/files/83083562327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e06cfa6be3bf840648a98ec0a3381d/7498225891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210901_090751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134068041aed---4350788405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/wukupawibasalusazejaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cc38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC38 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 865de3b18386e9b8b3cc5f3c4cd94b9aaba88d694ed7425ad4ca61651b66e939
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FCE 10384 bytes
SHA-256: d4853231be87f4bf614473fc1d6a8de98ea01a2138f403c39ef0aa7f1a3fcbc5