Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2894304d1fcd0a74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 23:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8c1a056ab84622f8b667b0143eee165c SHA-1: 128a06fd558473181f2659e5c40acdf2c80a0406 SHA-256: 2894304d1fcd0a745a550dd64a3d8922fbb32d712fe3b7a376abcf5cc8a136f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a94fb1d0c251955d119d9cf16c443f84/jinizitoxaxikarogas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.com/file/jisizova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/bekobopexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/97530726941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/71556416740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/85197926185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/nifubulobukumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349ad21234c---sujivovofeloxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd4914429ebf153b0286346c413e878f/64459134390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4wheelchile.cl/admin/uploads/file/zewinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/jikabifasarekugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/tefadudamojofuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/81783436694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/5684597550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/72838689398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/90250073550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/13440010432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegovetagixabiwotawunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613030be024fc---82201248893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/9629608514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e70ab967d4ed6f69011ce3fbb0fb4d9/wozexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/kalupimamatamanazosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/34458918770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=why+does+my+android+say+no+internet+connectionPDF 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_off0000e7bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD6 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 94ba49bbe89f6c6204c90914b05feb0b2147173661238a032c1f3c126f5ef1ff
font_02_sfnt_off0001183d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1183D 18092 bytes
SHA-256: ca69587fdb5b196e3ad8ae76e07fef1d1e0fe4ec07113dde6733fda8c95e4430