Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2388afb00986be24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c0a4c3faf91843e1a6cd86a01653727e SHA-1: 644a5a72cd9372ff0d8dcb6b01e2d8422c76737a SHA-256: 2388afb00986be2425b8c3ba3c999a84d9de036757b84c82aa5ffbce14b4375a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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=almanac+of+american+politics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81619523068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/sefafotilamibugekufutowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/zopota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c2a907b700be669651b7668c9bb569/30807112037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ucoj78eu600b43p48f7enesc0/98901619496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10dca3a329e17946f90792a4952e1af9/39214056977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8d786a0d7bfbd1bf9277413b660377e/67733117565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terobinogewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210720121313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartech.lv/sites/smartech/uploads/documents/files/zakekavifuragelimonodiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a12587ed9---xovavovagifosebamagutoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vorofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/nanamafatowulogebaramowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/wumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/nubowadorusiwaredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/356032183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalbi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72469898592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c2809e6212---tipidopuvozulaxananifitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokwuttibut.com/file_media/file_image/file/maxafawuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhconsultancy.nl/userfiles/files/17146207502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/gitopapofifasuxotaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14302005842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/mureda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/sadukoriwazuguzesava.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_off0000d4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4DF 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 3f76931d21fdb9164481cd81cfb0063e6c99a38451947c3e634234c2231d49da
font_01_sfnt_off000101ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CA 10760 bytes
SHA-256: eae9bfc57300cb35ff596cbb8cb5ab4682140240e09106dca39c5a9434dcf20d
font_02_sfnt_off00011a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1