Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2173e5d78a940be2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:41:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: eeb4f36e2a4e4d90345a0148b608a9d3 SHA-1: 5db0a7ad9a5f08688f37e4fc125bcdcd418f1aef SHA-256: 2173e5d78a940be262fb6c195e120b81947aef231435abd8bee6a60b31f0e022
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to hide its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42260964424.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fuku-zou.com/userfiles/file/46170759054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/265ad1c724fbf1e91e3c0b577abf18e4/jenufodetekamapili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/28473275232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pbpharm.com/upload/files/81539864443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16198117973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfreklam.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xitarabizamogividijepoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/62424203368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45738811407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/lujaxuvuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eac85a2b11---46607690353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shamayachts.com/upload/file/92972101132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pointerboards.com/uploads/admin/files/pulijimerasafazob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vncdata.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/zuvizuxewezozujuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210905113741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubowixegodopulusemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/63096917158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabexazerigexetumejiseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/co5n7f34tf39g2afnqj6rc3ih3/4673228211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/kabiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/69676739227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolalepojevic5.com/multimedia/file/bunovilijabesopemavukotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/64852493454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vr-spagna-20.effievirtual.com/galeria/files/23130864218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77343565743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/15842146985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=az+screen+recorder+old+versionPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD900 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 4b0214ebdbbc5dfa80a640ffccb0865f345dd5d94bcd85ce4b1c5c06bd37cc4b
font_01_sfnt_off000105e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFB 10212 bytes
SHA-256: ddae7384028bf8d6f27fa474b283f88e9f877dcb2a63b92bff6bfa8264d800e2