Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bb3d1c3a4dade92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 75e179ab13db09f75894f40fb1213a81 SHA-1: e99521d4742dee9000ade924d604c0dc0dead67a SHA-256: 2bb3d1c3a4dade928bce0d9dcdc5f9cd8cc406841e92e17fc9714b248ae830ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings, particularly 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM', indicate a pattern of distributing links across various domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blank+johari+window+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/dubovadekebajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1b29f1806---75211064286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/siwalozubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18a2a43ae3---45043083887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianfonmm.com/d/files/fukuxadipadexotugelafamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ba85ad3b8---52658502512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9689656011---jomiganisurupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqq6b927au6rmquot229m81ah3/goweguximipukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/giposenotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612584ac8f5e0---28438109735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/mivitorajugugunojozuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989815fd0f9d99b64a831075dee23795/gapizubupugosomuwajimitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3d66dd4c---wobusepanajopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db98666b26be4936e0fcfb1e152fec96/futezupame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf53553c07---fezutufanoxogodeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd2sp6bqmar3nlkf3lck6nptv1/52972739281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/zaxugikabajenatakekudexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/44938240421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma1.ru/!upload/files/8090103287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/devizifukatimarawijaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahjohnsonsark.com/clients/e/ef/ef24418f2336b9480f3353ee42fa3f58/File/vebuwatelotow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satesayap.com/contents/files/xelabumogazegixolejepi.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_off0000ebf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001040d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040D 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 350fbe8b0d3d3ef406c75361dd826bb0df7ab343da41bca9306b50fc6a597ce0
font_02_sfnt_off00011c95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C95 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 79d82cdd67efbd6657cba03a4325374a55c3f80a2447be4799840301f0213417