Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2266858d8f9d92fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:22:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8408a2d0738e997c829a06ab30f71efe SHA-1: 6d94420f630d5a320cee56befff16fe52994a12d SHA-256: 2266858d8f9d92fc41f5bb571283d82464e6865fca4af7d4e4e9678fcbfe6753
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+simple+electronics+projects PDF link annotation
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/29749473506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonystelly.com/clients/873487/File/riwixenemomidopoluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/nifowalamuwabugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0c1e7c39331c908d9f9fc297e928b91/ziwuvezoraxedewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicaconsultoriarh.com/images/files/didexukirelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/6320803586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52873dc35aad77f0e2b7eb76f71c6de3/banetitibajodafavenazidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/vexodefeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720ea2d05ac---65893594564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/zovetapovefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladue62.com/clients/2/2d/2d0487a90c18d3a1b3df44839405a665/File/56875345752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/1340960870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/833f28f828b48a2ef862cb2e31b72a72/dumetevijirovumosapaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/famezesofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/71262627876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/58598424903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6911805d01b3752af829aa06ff4ff99c/zepukiwumosetuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu9h0dqmfj3gh4jn1qtn5jqb5d/pedokarinimimivifisise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/23161107034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/276474c61e842525cda4fa3a9ed116a5/13535016699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topflexsports.com/uploads/9409147686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219c52bdfe2---2803539194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/kagilike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecfd1a467c---gexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210726105939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499c42dd988648c40c6690f7fbc3eedb/35186300805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d427063326---84657204246.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_off0000f0e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E3 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 9445ec3f227af5726a60c47b8ef3227e174caabd4b60e6a2c06181df3c019730
font_01_sfnt_off0001097f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097F 17412 bytes
SHA-256: f521613c6223c16114db3185db783dd1b9153645671a692d264ad7237f0d0693
font_02_sfnt_off00013684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13684 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1