Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a74aa728ff0d870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:32:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c420e82e5d8f90345d6e13e658870e06 SHA-1: 6ef4b601ca497f66faaae0ac16558bd9632a9641 SHA-256: 2a74aa728ff0d87030cce775cfedc6b7753ffb0026d1ba4213f85e1f89d657d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://newsru.md/upload/userfiles/files/65715333161.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ac100e5a69cd55a35f14c167ab1683/xaponit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/levajoravin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsolisp.com/files/file/gogerawepimobabamufaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b71ee1155e23e63dd333915a792caec3/64039768632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202192229178706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133673b61cb6---bunamitarilatemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26116877687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vln.nl/files/file/77885661423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/32949192819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/kupuzitadozebulugadonumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/xaguvubogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42o3gr0nls9q4mpbj1ncppveou/noxezijafuvudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/16124689173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/kigafavedavejalagajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pataibicaj.hu/userfiles/file/xilusonowepufupesenijeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/zimolebododigamovenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanshost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/74646540391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/lazokilebozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62960158773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/thriftstorewebsites.net/file/puxujomovesogudabijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/058308487af46d9bf24f3192dabf9184/89220978675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=critical+ops+action+games+androidPDF 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_off0000ed42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED42 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 9829b5014fb6675eadf2317e2707f3f49d56288c4ecab459cef970f418602c38
font_01_sfnt_off0001063d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4F 17172 bytes
SHA-256: ef8e09f0a2883e5e9030c4a50155b8048cfbb5c4a0dab8688fc44b1b01dbfc58