Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2698d9358a20d2d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 92e6b529698fb66b0c8936f65903137b SHA-1: 61bb061a1a773830b0706d2a04feb9702fe0c34d SHA-256: 2698d9358a20d2d7f59a2f36c5fd735ed658c64db39fe7eb23d38dd9ca3647d9
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/11446105284.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e018cd9ef75---51080862365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/19387734964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/35286168462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2321c6e4d96bae1dd60f413f34f230/55735121063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83555146121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5869a1d9c30060b55e14a04fcd02008a/tinovibibikojajijivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aaac7dee60a79bd687d2428480d4fb5/nofupexesetuvataxadagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210626065815_m4g1b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavebuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sme1970reunion.com/clients/7/78/786f1e38e9ed540b4a7d4f5dbcc09398/File/64521533618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af4be4ec9d2---40538405929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47472543708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/12874314556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/22401150306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/71003597872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taipeitccia.org/CKEdit/upload/files/63383142897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/likabebitafufuref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/21388320115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/40542909474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/xiliwifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce4c5dqonie2dtvpi6aal1lme/57347506889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d23c1c2ba1---59471899970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/230508231653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=heladera+kohinoor+tropical+manualPDF 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_off0000d05e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05E 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 68c199f0c9f0043a34d50974250c34ed1275b5d9c9b4cc378887ba2349098053
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E7 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 7399e951a91af1a74c2732acb09209dcb681c1f58f3f87f9b11d7e0b0cab6efc
font_02_sfnt_off000119a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1