Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2285abd0577498c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:25:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ad6555af8bfab119dc580030db1b528f SHA-1: 21aa8cbc88567423ffbc16188930f261f32d52ff SHA-256: 2285abd0577498c31745f16dca48b67b89150830fd2e928afdb11f10445781ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the presence of external URIs and links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded URLs are likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=latest+android+studio+download PDF link annotation
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/29266062655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368ec666650---58635025602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2748c54cf193e747007d7b841c04a4fb/17929691126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kentacademymiango.com/userfiles/file/62998382631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/sovelonafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwuvanojudugupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/90773907615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f08799bbec---64634739824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unstitchedfootwear.net/files/file/99049921319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908043755340519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146b2cb6be38---78522365059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/23269676416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcck.org/upload/editor/file/12240797064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepej.com/upload/file/sutitudedusiwafitoxibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/suvazuzabuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents/files/93903336442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawinodazeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/nizeneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/22662752268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niagarablock.com/application/webroot/userfiles/file/83278578810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtqedu.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/2200739704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drishtinetcom.in/FCKeditor/file/zozikigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogesewamabarazo.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_off0000de60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF672 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 37757b8081ab4848f9abc849a6132cc20bcd9049571d7295f5ce53bed6b66940
font_02_sfnt_off0001272a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272A 10384 bytes
SHA-256: c198f8c44f2586990709e0214f1a63517c46aa06afd30915bb08b1b94daa2e72