Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2374ca9fbb969a89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 476e24dc2a7a804da887916452713b14 SHA-1: 7063b30bcd69aae1113d8431123c6e99ef94f2d5 SHA-256: 2374ca9fbb969a8997ce4ea796178d13fc4112c0a742bb43baeabaf18a238a1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point to a common tactic of using compromised sites for hosting malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=psx2+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otpdd8g33gu13np65s8svvukd0/wibofamekagejewefogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dinubodatoweguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webfox.net.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14bb5c6e5a69fa62239384f618f9ffcd/53313002481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/28601935939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53di92scrrv3vp9eobiq9ngct1/64611349250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b137d5050fe---sirowegosobiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e63c5a630---makapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/gunubiraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f2ehn35blpfkskd0l1kq1n76/kufotiwopanepaveko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/xemazopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc58f98851d---50802494498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/delujite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/nilomotogede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2b9f89808---biwuwaposoxoxefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozebibewigamakejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b44dd7c2d---60108173922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333107859b7ce36f61eaad0e42ada858/58235397966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15e16b8bd5---48841042031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/97139945683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b729506b4---lugusodoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db7ee7c28ef---kanujabotabulabaporin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/kolozesovuwefunokaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p7673bgdqqqfckeir4kemf51s/61259085271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/xutoparojunut.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_off000102f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F0 19352 bytes
SHA-256: ab5e0aaf21fe9ee77ad4fa2dcb87ef294b87fb271aa92fe41268348c36f3addb
font_01_sfnt_off00013472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13472 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014c89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C89 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 63023ac104e42808e0a09e2cdfda7f52dbb6e36eb30cae838f8b9fdf9b7cc6a7