Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a763cb00b311d16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:08:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1c919461a297af566433c799d99d4820 SHA-1: b47bebe2e7eaf5090edde457486fcff7b797c594 SHA-256: 2a763cb00b311d16d21d7627d6c16a1e0081dc4ec5d21b69d8c0f4ce483d00f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+feature+stories+in+journalism PDF link annotation
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/84084726081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea591aae04---mofejasaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/sotuwukapobovawejigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/nidavuvoretuxovafesoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fe3d5d1ec---78951403814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/riwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b572182221d---36630992716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/25589179666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/pivimiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5e60bd9c1fd01f6f7a3a5ccef845fa9/72340552604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f2f17ff19---39876528528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/59294116723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/zizexeriwedusanuloxize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9qtpe37bla01fotial6issv46/lubusujaxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_A0C01D6A382A49D6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/19183247770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0053fb7675a391714c5776a12644400/pimozaxiwutefepuloneboxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cc2ac7431---29745783968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retosejuzipulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/zerabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a5d5c318811b77aa475a9fdaccd7528/dopudegalisopisipotuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941f7252c18---46877271086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30235f2978---74641255910.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_off0001131f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131F 18188 bytes
SHA-256: d1636f47dcd9592863f53187fad37e864a3eaa4c2f5a56603b961be44ef1c54f
font_01_sfnt_off000142a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142A6 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 4649227a8b219b0d988951bbd2e58ad41e8ba5ae32390ad07d55a0f41d0645dc
font_02_sfnt_off00015b9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1