Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2535b803b00ea00c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9bde5bbe598fa93876b00ba320eda506 SHA-1: 5a3657f60df10cc6f31aeb4f8230f9a05643b73e SHA-256: 2535b803b00ea00c7b0d79a121259a4a5cd337d14ec620a65df82d9a48d1bed5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites and link farms, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The file's structure and URL patterns suggest it is part of a campaign to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cuentos+cortos+de+valores+para+ni%C3%B1os+de+primaria+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00ecabb29b---ragulifegamawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/91387358496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/17038768797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/vowibalofulolelerotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xyr59.com/filespath/files/20210829081248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021611953205724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebbers-schilderwerken.nl/uploads/files/96810134611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d3130880e72f45922e8f02af56262d/bedezijovoradugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce13fdd0b57ed2fba8b90c06aeea2cb/fexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/telaminugiwowarerudazepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/65047055434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/rewixenuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd4060da01---96238082383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ea135db8df00ae5feaef218f376312/nijaxarewusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/wakabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/77000598782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pazemobefurawotisaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/43753946916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/raxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34c9618dd6df2a12d24415921ba5f995/67809479039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs//files/58295138899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021070117562422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48912315035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9f034a8862---97800324991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/xagit.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_off0000ded2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED2 22044 bytes
SHA-256: 2458db2a300543cf5b44a1d9e585701476dc2370818ef5f7ab121fd75ee5cb59
font_01_sfnt_off0001162d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1162D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E44 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 94cd115688dcaff1f612f7f8c4cd5c5fd6fdc4b54be24e2dd09c7b2abc3af168