Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2711508032dc7ebe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-13 22:23:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fb18a6e8f6eb6afe5cc17840859c4f66 SHA-1: cf74dbb948c298469bac3fa4ad533ba66d386590 SHA-256: 2711508032dc7ebed1ce9d77e7ab3258b479ec047cc6543c5e940519843def76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, including compromised WordPress sites. The presence of UTM parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement, further indicating a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lean+on+download+mp3+mr+jatt
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/12128479117.pdf
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/6929070769.pdf
    • http://arnold-sitter.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vamarojebevuno.pdf
    • http://maxkbm.com/clients/2/28/28fcaa936e2ecbeb6c9a97ea0f1ab253/File/basapomakisafojalivatub.pdf
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/82216653147.pdf
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/jamuvurelubexoxenonevekop.pdf
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81553084510.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e1989dc82---xavakagukowitiwidif.pdf
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/vamilonefikopasufaxe.pdf
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/ratidekele.pdf
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/favilinefopure.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9f7680a962cc1b99360184647ba03b/fativedobopoxorevavulofe.pdf
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/kutiwip.pdf
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ic5o0aj9q8cg6ovpi7athjt0g6/96580959587.pdf
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/fidusififomaxaguwapixugo.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc7e0421b7a45f6b0100bb5828f70d36/toduzafagavudovulelawut.pdf
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21375039542.pdf
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e504f29d13416712542ed0de03a07395/9647915051.pdf
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32430d3a44---zoxexe.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/64468988119.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c8f43ce5e930f8102e1968754a02fe3/zesanebakizepuxajego.pdf
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/29094302183.pdf
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/29652611848.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da89.bin
43d0d2c0b5cd231c548452ba8e8a9510791e2adc807e66e9412fc5c32b147897
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA89 10640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e8.bin
93bf5705181dd338bb4ce584e3b4eb7808e59002c3af4dea57a3d408c0a74551
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E8 2420 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd4f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4F 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011561.bin
e2b59dd8d5123a4c9153baf5ccbb8b05ff1b9b961d593891b905fe02845cc953
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11561 17304 bytes