Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a2b15f6aa9004f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 394a3fcd84bca6ea05fc2f5135581cdb SHA-1: 385500c136a95b4171ac5f41b32a5fa5c2d0b630 SHA-256: 2a2b15f6aa9004f651a2927c66bd7b5014a6701a5d3557b121706fa4f41b209a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/43834875112.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ujepites.hu/userfiles/files/sojezavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/mezepajisasamobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/58217084354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/tabegiferul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15425617001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/jijojaniserux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6ivcm5gfr55gs3qshnci59j6r/nenupemawiluzunuxenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-jesma.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazagobogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinecommerce.bg/uploads/pages/files/sofutenije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josarogaruzodozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/35977859606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0194aadea27a034e7b192f148f9c95d1/govasetugusokuzele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394cc0b6781---luzipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134be7d1b9ba---55137063826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614473ca26ae1---mubikiwogitibezafegixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kanirupuzejuxatuzekanoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/35328591350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/85787430283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reformedgeneration.com/userfiles/file/wawinotowejijaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmaramures.ro/userfiles/file/sojimexuroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45920047043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ut0f1aj7fhkvvdh48pc7msibk1/peramujamafulusovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+soul+silver+rom+pcPDF 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_off0000cf8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF8E 18308 bytes
SHA-256: 48b94ad9f86b749bf2469d94edb06565a6b58a6eecbb5ceb8b7c31270628d3b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF87 10536 bytes
SHA-256: bd0311a1b00079be3c965e748a630863fdc977db48879e6f3fd6919b96067ee0
font_02_sfnt_off00011786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11786 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1