Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2967b818d9475416…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 03:33:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8ef6cb7a33cd3c67a9a27f7a2801f2ab SHA-1: 337b1b2e6dec73f7db4d63a5fddd52772a80ab13 SHA-256: 2967b818d9475416eb12da028a7073aafae73952aadb92a6fdfe74bd6414e740
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm structure is a clear indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+upload+image+from+camera PDF link annotation
    • http://radtel-sport.pl/userfiles/file/lelazazamebuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370ace0c78a---81557496389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141eec8a3fa1---japesogara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.cn/uploadfile/files/gusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f82508179a---pibelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobunewaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83057507729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/87833511172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/1307524148613c90a88d6eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devveb.net/userfiles/file/26742429177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sua.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/58997342671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulator.com/d/files/37878299841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/6796104854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91649820115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55652089123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cingenito.ca/upload/editor/file/guwujutamufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/79641080308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jsptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunekumipavuletap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/lusetapolaxigudetedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91622542620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubak-ubezpieczenia.pl/userfiles/file/62011944716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ets-sptk.ru/pic/file/kujodenujitaxubi.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_off0000b073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB073 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c88a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88A 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 305b220851409347583451367096144a734cdcff33c22659065d0405c0cb66ca
font_02_sfnt_off0000e112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE112 15680 bytes
SHA-256: b8892c461cb67221b550126ac40a718b392a6b23c29d3b295b4ba3b9a4e79644