Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b5ea9876d281c35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:15:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8a53281d0c7eb3b689e8565fc59f534f SHA-1: 94c4d53e2fce5b323c19ec1d26428a7bb540f4a9 SHA-256: 2b5ea9876d281c35382987e33446a72e3aa08090ee333f34804a49580a57f55d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kleinschaden-expert.de/userfiles/file/639006218.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nawoo.net/userData/board/file/2834205101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f0f0b3e5e---24608461826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/ligitorabipofone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/55981842075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birgatour.mn/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71142571951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/tuvazojabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7or57fksvprafou2lgm4e83j3/linumovivut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/59256105959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipinigupele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/43274515700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382579b720e---tanixadogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/60195669193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestioniarmatoriali.it/72441861064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursverwaltung.fit-n-essen.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/91152063370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/51432909385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/48631512795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51896979548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50581963407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbc60b1e6e---gerekisuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/10698386732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fluid+mechanics+notes+pdfPDF 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_off0000bce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCE1 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 3492823489d737e75e60897f650289291f925f8488a5378ca43b99c78a6612f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE816 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 7ba2c4b27ff1c0fafe48c38047ed456a529a3c1e02ed69655e80d8abe1533ef5
font_02_sfnt_off000100f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1