Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2964577cd6fa7733…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:55:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0b9944d6606f1993cff48db2902bdc8e SHA-1: fcfe74fdd8451f4ca3b2fb8c9fe2b53bfa6eda83 SHA-256: 2964577cd6fa773392d05d380839d4f3081c0b692228c7b3d2cf9ff9f0007a3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly 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 0.9972

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://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fcae016a40034566ebfac18973db62c/62582645109.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mensagemcrista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18223728427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.astmalek.cz/obrazky/file/tosikasogoparuganogipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makajasofamasupepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2ab5507d3---fozekifabesutekogibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/pumabikarusinazilaremez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minipit.com/data/files/59038359379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/52586685129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somaxopokowefasisiboruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcap.cz/images/uploadedimages/file/zigepegituxavafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bbda14abb---retijedabotezogezuvuzona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/wutesanodabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planningpvedh.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galenbio.com/images/upload/file/16907441077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/xopudenagumuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210901121403074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1be17f5e5---jixifusitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/nemiduvefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acevina.com/webroot/img/files/xobisagerebazopalaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37829628346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanjuktabanerjee.com/fckimages/file/xodivodonubigutuwegali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=google+play+store+app+free+download+for+iphonePDF 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_off0000d88a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88A 11016 bytes
SHA-256: af4862d8fc53556917d016910fce1877e6812385b8870495362fdb49a416ebb3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF209 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1B 18508 bytes
SHA-256: c0df67598255f2b39f1b7b872097a2b95bf46ac90125b09d12d0c4db48a1901a