Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2669079835bc888e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:15:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 749805d50e8c521b41103507b19478c6 SHA-1: ba6fdba373b29f31570f3f3777b8d1f65a2a875a SHA-256: 2669079835bc888ebc97d4795c25551460557e64effec7d30eae7a4d701a7d2f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including an image-only appearance and a click-outward action. It contains a significant number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 70 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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 http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/51606852304.pdf
    • http://rosabaum.de/web/editor/files/83890578984.pdf
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/71385558070.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cb9b86cd6---77741164526.pdf
    • https://nichecnk.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/74635676854.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/63901967917.pdf
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/80199801888.pdf
    • https://armour-technoz-ca.otzol.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1118607510.pdf
    • http://savytrading.com/userfiles/file/pamigefinowapovojiga.pdf
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/86211537762.pdf
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35f3lq22po88uf58br5fufb4cl/69133135637.pdf
    • http://decoworld.in/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/91494703814.pdf
    • http://sweet-sugar.de/images/uploadedimages/file/9987771807.pdf
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/piruzofaluvin.pdf
    • http://inteko-tula.ru/f/file/zuwolixabepoleforumubi.pdf
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/52673533920.pdf
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/safunuwukuzu.pdf
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/68030099618.pdf
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/1669384452.pdf
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed6e4e336f---polumaga.pdf
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/zezat.pdf
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/doribuxevesamugas.pdf
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/niwodutiwadelurumexeme.pdf
    • http://ptichile.cl/userfiles/file/mudug.pdf
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/judazudusimaxizizad.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=grand+truck+simulator+2+money+hack
    • 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_off0000b4c6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4C6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccdd.bin
6395d1d34619881734e5b39332ef639279eedd5b6b86190fe2a15deeb84449f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDD 11100 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6aa.bin
1e3bb831820ac5a7b9f7c37491b033aef839dc3c9e217c6525d93938265737b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AA 14192 bytes