Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b0391e17c888cbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dd55c5bf6f66a7e9dd73901ab99310df SHA-1: 39a8f9e4a5d1768821b697ba1c52ae398a537d25 SHA-256: 2b0391e17c888cbc3677cbc6408ed1c6d437a6a8d71193be3a0f1d1d81f45c85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, such as the one pointing to a WordPress upload directory, suggest an attempt to host or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://moretonassets.net/userfiles/93584003448.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/bujirevureriluzibile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8118054543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xegoxujerazazugologokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335fe3828da---fupetivisixedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sekerijegitefobusasiwume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/kivazetulosovobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/gemubezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximatinhdongnai.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/14768473815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/matuzowiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/14109574962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highendteen.com/userfiles/files/35861512066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinasimex.com/uploads/file/degetikolevafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tottazo.com/userfiles/file/92097701656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lhihfn33jrefvoe54vdg7oj60/tazinemiputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/463697537043ca49be608546bd1e32b7/reworudagavotinoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/81192874871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhbon.vn/media/ftp/file/90475123457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/60467270412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/terewonabawoviputuxixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/jofotabedetofugaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77392344238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73hidtb5j326g0ce7gh1dqc8id/96534143829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglory.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84201133509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=justin+bieber+ft+nicki+minaj+mp3+downloadPDF 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_off0000cda9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDA9 18232 bytes
SHA-256: a557dcb38cc9c672f1e0f4e48f98dadbbadf584b7356f1c9c4bbd86b32869e44
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001156f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1156F 11492 bytes
SHA-256: cc24b6268dcb163276703fe08c55a513724767ac56d9014d4d86804c187939e7