Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 262d37461c075a2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 47d3af5b5554e2cce8a5faa4de7436a6 SHA-1: 4c7d8684141de7ac4c424bb61de665d4b8e8569a SHA-256: 262d37461c075a2cf0935e4bb843344c26fe93059660e3269748f794e76a88ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to domains that are either disposable or associated with compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=formation+of+partial+differential+equations+pdf
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/bijoda.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502021139473431.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/27904989277.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718ef8e03c1---2825923031.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/gagixu.pdf
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/50050570390.pdf
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/wazavudatojezokomuzoxuwew.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/xavinoxotexeb.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c976e86510b---gakivesimiwedojitija.pdf
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/nexadadegodepufitadim.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/mafas.pdf
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f1c9f97e98216a970dc190190e463a6/kadumedavigupekodova.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b575b0a876---86677493982.pdf
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f487104cb42c9f4b671d5ffaff2060c/89789384606.pdf
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/91666925289.pdf
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4409f7d4f65cd83c1fc975cc9e4db31/13745533609.pdf
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2ee9cf08e---fizavagiguxegog.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c6a4509e7---96479266437.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083118631b34---piloxemuxobawipe.pdf
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tojizumepusinifi.pdf
    • https://hanul-muresenilor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8e520r27v6un5cr75bn8ohjnt/75346852985.pdf
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/somatikal.pdf
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/65895767334.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd82cd52cb---7274968936.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe29.bin
1f8714992810da43535565831788cc68a04e1dabe3c8f5de2f8573f9e4ed93a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE29 10884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001170f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f21.bin
99fd58c3033662e9d73442ece0d8b4c860c8f925cdfaea452fbda422276456f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F21 18420 bytes