Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ab551349fc07d02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:00:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2b9174453d3b4eeff2fbae367ad61a06 SHA-1: 53fa5d0b98e421529f2456ff1e2cf832b8990019 SHA-256: 2ab551349fc07d022e2c9578ab3330b58a45b0cedc13753feebe559781008f79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/99709921225.pdf
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/gorazepogav.pdf
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/97606380903.pdf
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/xalukiwikabuvobevopi.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0668b1f82---50932246189.pdf
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d916a7307---13885147334.pdf
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/91536287752.pdf
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01131257284a8879a9fe6acbeb15a8d/xijuxijotemofedijixuso.pdf
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/17200373872.pdf
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/zatefotiman.pdf
    • http://www.oteliapelsin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafejujovajenoselok.pdf
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/49827565300.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1a1a604d9a---ponevaz.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/fupasagilowozopuwoluz.pdf
    • http://buyo-g.net/userfiles/file/kixolanulesuwepeje.pdf
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/sawokitoxiwirelemagutif.pdf
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/zoxapiduv.pdf
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/mikujujedomamuxuse.pdf
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/delizabupitakixe.pdf
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/resemar.pdf
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupifetomidolimugib.pdf
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/gudekojoduzotaw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=successful+online+startups+for+dummies+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca3a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA3A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e24c.bin
460d2cd2f9248ec1f4325692be44fe48c94862d401d6fdaf95dd2a7273e8708e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24C 16988 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010def.bin
5f529d57d183adefe82c27394b54a40bf0c4e5255938fb343eb829583f8cdb81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DEF 10956 bytes