Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2887b1e829ce12d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 85e08a5bddeea24e2a5f9d0d483118d3 SHA-1: aa67bf3744b1820a9cc57ab01b5204ba61652e78 SHA-256: 2887b1e829ce12d266ec6de4fa09707aea3b0de2183c09ef0f27faec62c68fcb
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Notably, the document contains an instruction to disable security software, a critical indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shotgun+farmers+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_24080B4B87D30037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/mofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/5613935317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/8951213964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/67175716407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/75269928930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geelaboba.dswip.com/ci/userfiles/files/33399139322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_762D39569BE55703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/91489108480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8e3e932ec---29094630153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/9307383927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/2109072317146850013egb02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etravelbox.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/bazilesep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/96111419151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonbinhduong.com/upload/files/23269110551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/51973722832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/rowewolabakidupujakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonmediagroup.com/pic/file/jaxazejagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28755761973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/503b0de90539a07e23ecc93ae8affa83/sulelapogugijunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinavaron.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135659475f54---59523587121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/64039868778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/zexopunemene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simoncaulkin.com/images/ganumulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fb7ec86d97fedce1f68faec8c89b97f/68104271676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343f30aaea2---73279222140.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_off0000f21b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21B 19956 bytes
SHA-256: 01667b3a3c4a8c4902fbb8e6d3545b50a3fa3e8fd84ca99dfbb89f289e5d2bc0
font_01_sfnt_off000125f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125F7 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 60876a510a4b468e3df3f5710ce30919e0459d7c487ed38f4c343a94ccae5470
font_02_sfnt_off00013f2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1