Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 279c2587ffb20b75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 05:55:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eaf8f9224ee5b35200cda93ec43eb2f2 SHA-1: c6b82b29fba021e37a91299bd3254766ddbdc3f3 SHA-256: 279c2587ffb20b757be8884b7d7b4593839860c6bd475b5627bd6f7a1962d8a7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document contains instructions to disable security software, a common tactic to facilitate further malicious activity. Numerous URLs are present, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+pc+aimbot+download PDF link annotation
    • http://a-b-i-s.net/layout/bilder/file/kajebuzupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applecentervn.com/uploads/image/files/xedofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/xudeluwakake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc72dab0272de1e0b3c55b2ee5c8fa3/nebiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e2d68104e---35439142083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1630542837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3d50ac8f4---35802775050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwokegibinugovanujiwefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/93638209590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25500185568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6369854802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/31857645289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/81807419127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permagnet.com/upload_files/file/210909202305823524ngw9yi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/fexatifokafipusemebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdunu73m8e9ol3rfk6ck9ijbk1/16021926581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limobebe.com/userfiles/files/44728336552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/85209443405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f206c9f4b2fa13593aa8ff514168f627/9388232161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/061010149979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojoxumiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73917810503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/xagimojeguwidilusalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/guxevotedetedezajitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/rugudelusasajukuxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozujowijezerufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE026 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 4e14b7ddb05679f81cd7cefc88e038784d1e7aa97a79df802bea8b1c25820be2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11090 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 16c1a9e754a51e1f993d2b367fad4710d9d64a108fbe31894129e23d2dfa3930