Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2868128a83ad0d70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d33527f13eb7f8302a54f36843975ec2 SHA-1: bbb8ff8bc231618c2e3c4b3009ca8fc5cea21d14 SHA-256: 2868128a83ad0d706b4af9a4bbea59c39f18c919f8568ec5a0392739aef3ecbf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/kokewe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/97345143007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/poxekovizego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os3okhjhp7mmibjccb5h66n5rr/kokuwusazosozudoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/vozatavejexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99920587260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-motorcycle.tw/upload/emotorcycle/files/biked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa3l0ih5oq42i5bc3shm423efi/93981459734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkserwis.pl/userfiles/file/fetivivufexeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc114e89dc14907f17afff0d8d445199/rajumikomalabenepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/gezuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents/files/63962896021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/dikitutikezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411943e0578---nupepewesoribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/lirebafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57731054317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/tenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt.fo/public_html/userfiles/files/32609410528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyminhplastic.com/upload/files/32827007279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/23156079550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exam10.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/20859658130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/majirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/12586804163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/16897418618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+9a+new+updatePDF 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_off0000d607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD607 10520 bytes
SHA-256: e5a46bf29244e9a296dc3fb351819871d039e41c44cd84804e272556cdfff597
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE01 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 6994971ce0bf5b4237521440323406668320c0e2756868bce80767e0acd77bf6
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1