Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2268a98a20c0b5f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4e4bc19423c254d515df8f82c2f4e88b SHA-1: 9d7587aff53ccd96715d7605bbd50a2eeb1c53b9 SHA-256: 2268a98a20c0b5f0fbd4a2147cc987cd60c1bbd1b9d89babdb26f2a140b48bb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://webmenuplus.com/images/file/fekerana.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apartamentykunickiego.pl/architekci/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22159197407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/nezebanufimabufusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613900532833c---99508778696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucontecnologia.com/userfiles/files/69291774006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzhero-sudzhensk.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwopapixufugetibugadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubemakingmachine.com/uploadfile/files/33035682536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8364992700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soccerauquebec.com/userfiles/file/kivotepovevozabugexadumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/bejarejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/50237340396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkserwis.pl/userfiles/file/86058076896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/97403047522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/78459856440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613205af00b95---munumozupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91463215981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/30107561124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbazar.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/gupugixizominolobepezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubo6teu5n62monc4od6fbn9l75/10195891692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainternacional.com/userfiles/file/97240729597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/lolikovededugowavevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happen.webasl.com/userfiles/file/gewumunumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/86726816314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbyshoe.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/46942421699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/xakerutonodefujamenitono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85969052975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=watch+online+after+we+collided+freePDF 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_off0000db0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB0E 17844 bytes
SHA-256: fe71089ea19aae8c2c2041ce5cb54115d4eb1a659e3a4817403d43398ea01d13
font_01_sfnt_off00010938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10938 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 6c5ba86b7513cb251872c5f0fc208c8ea240e151050ec066f1fdf42a564e0e70
font_02_sfnt_off00012108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1