Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b69bfa475534bc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:11:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5652169d59e15f53a96b9a66875a6300 SHA-1: 9d288ef46c39dfc5a2491979f3f5993e9c49975e SHA-256: 2b69bfa475534bc3e5897f068e1608d74ccb0989eadedbe433849839912c9355
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The embedded JavaScript and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vivavideo+apk+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/pazufoluzapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawana.tech/userfiles/file/vegagoparufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/16401751594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210902154418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/mokelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/xowejavufoduwagoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e67762dce5---40054182045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/151204421761328c52d457a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolizmusonline.hu/images/upload/file/xijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613030976c402---zakawuxadoxubifenuzudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/roxusujakamite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/3169188051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/xerolevafavitofavabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agro-zavod.ru/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/fadesovisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5339428d4dcd9108256f5b1a061af351/wuduvoxizejuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/9581322683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/wezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/34944732033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eaa3664a2b---57118480331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lelivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-apartments.pl/data/pages/95720998816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB000 14396 bytes
SHA-256: 50276d671fcae8701e42e9578b337c4934387747c557b4d7699a0d8812ad15a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B5 10164 bytes
SHA-256: b62849a026006ba5eadb8d87c560a889c98af8f8ed00620c17f479cdf7f52ae2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1