Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b361c4e86fd8f85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:14:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ad3997f7fdd04c287e90a22a09440d9e SHA-1: 61c63958af3e495333ad117ff6fff285106d95ba SHA-256: 2b361c4e86fd8f855ed596626d4f36b3198bbf5f35822432599110b2e186c363
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The embedded URLs, particularly those hosted on compromised WordPress sites, form a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of external URI links and the overall structure suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a0868b9b9a---45993366727.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.smartusb.info/images/library/File/30963790652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/jewepajoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenatharcade.com/userfiles/file/33386997418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyaspublicschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/14289807863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/833061499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.arborvitae.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratulubugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-spb.com/userfiles/file/guvizuzugonolebalemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/55170034551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n3ss.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dofegejawovemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/17079866494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/35698244213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/96134579295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7k40an7cn62k3lekb3h2jjroe/zatugazesetene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/161533089933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepevodepavujonujepakasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/xisebawulameduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://u15.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bolenedamexulevusipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdprescription.com/ci/userfiles/files/19413944837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mihalex.by/files/files/xibuvinomeziberuvuvubofal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/solesugadivezupesevojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148b9daeed9a---39946949513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alocainghien.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gebuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideal-site.ru/userfiles/file/biboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+dr+web+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4+%D1%81+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%BCPDF 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_off0000b879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB879 22016 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3247223d69e5a018a23545441f0d0a16d3a220075744bec72f59b3c4f2f869
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A5 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 75155c06f6cd1824ce8a1e5326369f9ccc049c44efadc6286358877815664257