Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2681a31167eadbc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 653bf9b1f2f9fa2b09ef2dbb4b77c672 SHA-1: c7af378f4c712aea01706d028bca99c73faa8d07 SHA-256: 2681a31167eadbc64b73187c027729e841ac1d5677196cfefdacda7bc9d1c4f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The file's structure and link farm characteristics indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://huanghels.com/filespath/files/20210905182300.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2784620598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613764adb2c00---pokusukoxedanewosowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objets.immoweiss.lu/userfiles/files/popifatosirekoxumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.privathospitaletkollund.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48245968010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.es/userfiles/file/roselipiwapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refinerlink.com/userfiles/file/dabawenerusobiguxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/37969172980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/868556e2cfc16ac9e4c1ac543f7349fe/1372849833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/sewipudujejolite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f59u189fcb84jru3a12f7p12l1/66952441083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokojaworoneritapasilekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89f9eace9883bb7c97ae3ddbc1e5c99/kozilizufanomazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/borukuvikobejekerawopami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1471030e6---10096681483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/371dc6201e331d8bf0773094e73d8466/buvelemajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijmscr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30469096147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/gaderafebutusage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613920c6ec3e9---garabuwilulokofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/vulakekovima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/56677087970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/jiwasepagogolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/bepozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semot.com/Store/userfiles/file/5398916531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+convert+int+to+stringPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D1 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 9790d4500620ad3ced09d9bf28d563ffa8885ee31b2100603bd52b8b34531efb
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA1 18488 bytes
SHA-256: b18f57a21d33ca0bd1c33284772bec21c154439756f61a1e73db60601c343a46
font_02_sfnt_off00011d05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1