Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2146ae7fb9784fd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:08:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8e5ff09e9b60a0024357c77195480d2c SHA-1: 4def42ded6d69d6a12d7b44ddee18dde2c0ebaa0 SHA-256: 2146ae7fb9784fd75e2cc03c5e338fc1e74cc8170e86c0f090a33ed1fb4ad7d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The PDF structure itself is not inherently malicious but serves as a vessel for these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=9.s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+kuran%C4%B1+kerim+ders+kitab%C4%B1+cevaplar%C4%B1+ata+yay%C4%B1nc%C4%B1l%C4%B1k+sayfa+67
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db652d26645939028f5e81cf9752223/78801744867.pdf
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/37574521296.pdf
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/wenavo.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706be210119---58098705156.pdf
    • http://hongpakthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75094327450.pdf
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1cfdhg73lj5jfmpm44hibdmsb/41271469255.pdf
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/zivuxoravebivomukodal.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce350f9678a---98063687846.pdf
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/58193419008.pdf
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f684999d8b---31275720536.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fqf6haqs9uh1c1kp5i06p9hho1/95520147511.pdf
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161209a6c126df---49993150332.pdf
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b166e7458282f35fea6c9b54a5a5ed59/8962453859.pdf
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/8596855099.pdf
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j56ohkmkhfnq39ojfrvvec5b9n/fupegetatozol.pdf
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/54334954767.pdf
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/4964461694.pdf
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/85962281483.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15d8222566---61110514287.pdf
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/97599552205.pdf
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611577c301c8c---jaregedusazulaxawetokexe.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cfd479ed7---19872262888.pdf
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/31231926139.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d43f96a95b1---vufijajofomofuzeta.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_off0000d0a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8b7.bin
dfc45afa2f00bb5154791fa20a0e63a81ada3fdb0e12ac2fd904a52928130f55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B7 11572 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103e2.bin
4d054542b745025b2a0898fc07812f1b0244a10a787663634f3c9e9f90f0ae71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E2 18088 bytes