Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2888ac8191bf5861…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eef7dd19a699185f4790cdb6de8c450f SHA-1: 52910e7d8f5081b9087c666d21f3d80e9ca04f13 SHA-256: 2888ac8191bf5861a1e6dfc5fb00f7dce8bab62218f170350496fe9cc39402cc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of link farms designed to redirect users. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting and potentially a QR code lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=barcode+scanner+android+to+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/81621725720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/60703093284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a2c0dc91a---ruzogotuxaxalubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/1656320346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/84741407644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/zaxumelomutanibaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwm-quanta.com/upload/files/68376242955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosung-gulf.com/uploads/file/jijixogovobewikoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424d1c02b8a---39097245692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/74000088147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molenat-energies.fr/molenat.com/images/editor/file/43441459308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/zemukusezixopelumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/5241250427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916190909507431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/47465695265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/derepide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/9328900084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/wiremewaliketoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgiduuut2rrj6h325js391ja8c/taxeronenotufuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a86cc58cb6---fifesixudofulexakaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artcorner-fiberglass.com/userfiles/files/21767702929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/powojuwejowazizulesara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/7322596863.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_off0000b692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB692 10516 bytes
SHA-256: be45814be8d37efa721c40fcbeddc8443b464b8bf73f749e608b7a7c6b5b59e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000cea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B9 16028 bytes
SHA-256: bf978d6f5ea86667d644f5c2059bac30b93f2487b37d64c2eec73c3a07ece0f3