Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b08a6f932aed91d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:43:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 97ed1fe6f5b3967f94f8e2bd15e24ccf SHA-1: 465190e03c6c1a01584203575d10eae0867ff238 SHA-256: 2b08a6f932aed91d10107b1cdcf79b4daea86e3ff8e7e007240737bc7d4cf09e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the URLs as a link farm on potentially untrusted hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=preset+lightroom+xmp+android
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fc1b61f17---minawudated.pdf
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/vamujenaka.pdf
    • http://forma8.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/figenovolifodusemixel.pdf
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/92824064558.pdf
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/gosege.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bb0305843---27449393078.pdf
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143dbab8a520---40092820700.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/75695393183.pdf
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/wikamisalovemi.pdf
    • http://jujucuisine.com/userfiles/file/zibepigesele.pdf
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/60133229635.pdf
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/jufikakorep.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb253f61dadd1d94d33e75115b5ca5c/diwefu.pdf
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/20447716312.pdf
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufidadobusologosesamu.pdf
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/72173210233.pdf
    • http://xyr59.com/filespath/files/20210916071913.pdf
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/dexadivadifuvojozopifam.pdf
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///14621077552.pdf
    • https://aalatour.com/basefile/b2caalatourcom/files/58927780198.pdf
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14355540585.pdf
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzowozijala.pdf
    • http://hamkr.com/userData/board/file/69326339522.pdf
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/81241238442.pdf
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makagugizonibotetet.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_off00012115.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12115 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013927.bin
bfe21e9b3d7917e1fe32fc118f7aa06f69e8e42f1c966079e11edc32860d6e8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13927 19376 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016bdd.bin
185a09c0603872c1804218a5d57724faf3c724d84dc6d17102184dd7423e9114
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BDD 10944 bytes