Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2246c397c7024272…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 19:29:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1297af185daddab7d03b387e18dd74dc SHA-1: 207d6250345b8e7515e392276b99fb78a90d13a6 SHA-256: 2246c397c7024272ed8680dcc9e2e741f9c56608daafde447faca2415a8762cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm on compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards an attack pattern involving directing users to malicious content.

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+dictionary+words
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/331iccscl5627a2ighn44v631r/zijexelefezuwedidutixi.pdf
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/rasev.pdf
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78414e0b467c9615078e2e8043e73384/7629814516.pdf
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/kitek.pdf
    • http://gkz-crimea.ru/userfiles/file/xabonunevo.pdf
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumowefabupasoxodu.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b537bd11fa---7665057368.pdf
    • https://ms1oke.com/contents/files/13585378181.pdf
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53216148925.pdf
    • https://desco.scp.hr/files/86209634301.pdf
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132959cbee63---kikapamazixebomegebitefel.pdf
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/55057514739.pdf
    • http://hkacca.com/userfiles/dajotowagajifosaladobupag.pdf
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/bubudazujizipidudafoza.pdf
    • http://2990592.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82784845258.pdf
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/58385840084.pdf
    • http://potentialdesign.cn/userfiles/file/1631901542.pdf
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/99285445303.pdf
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/17066703596.pdf
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/walumepinirepoligono.pdf
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7bbd593547d0be92966dba8677d9aba/507186365.pdf
    • https://kettosallampolgarsag.net/imagini_ws/9617114565.pdf
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51330572504.pdf
    • http://mcutech.net/files/tetalanefi.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_off0000d6ba.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6BA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eed1.bin
a427078042b997c5d98863ee434fba36849f140a1b7c33c003acbd95870414bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED1 10432 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000106ad.bin
3f5ba53598d73d34481af95040447d2f059ac4ce2bd71a7766ff55d54e9b3710
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AD 17584 bytes