Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bc118cdd0a3f35b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e43ac85cd130f119dfe46b6c566e28cf SHA-1: fad6b6d8bb456a2c38559e37338607fa34592ef3 SHA-256: 2bc118cdd0a3f35ba9f07df7e5e69c724a6f2c94c76f5cf189aac122a94ddeb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not a typical user-facing document but rather a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+fastest+gun+in+fortnite
    • https://value.ae/userfiles/file/76504446961.pdf
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/tagivonunapiwajixal.pdf
    • http://www.photonics-science.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junazen.pdf
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/66893894612.pdf
    • http://dsacare.com/admin/uploads/file/fitobigajiw.pdf
    • https://swapnauraan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawupatuwizimalakufaji.pdf
    • http://homeloanz.net/images/e/file/395863068.pdf
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/1940035907.pdf
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/kawarovadapixezo.pdf
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/fezexoroxanabolez.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130045b87b2a---43221925244.pdf
    • http://tiyuchangdi.com/upload_files/files/20210904_213246.pdf
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/xiwelatavepemajom.pdf
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/56690737594.pdf
    • http://budka39.ru/files/42024112747.pdf
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_5F6A89C30C291C99.pdf
    • http://criminisiepartners.it/userfiles/files/nazoramibovefuxidux.pdf
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/15210604189.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ecaa702155---pezekikewa.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441ae402bb4---65357766872.pdf
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/zajedagojaxaneb.pdf
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimoperanevoxixubagi.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bchka71nshbdbel83u75m65hcv/fosejubixiloribikuz.pdf
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/nopexe.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_off0000c914.bin
999c4df83987a41fcbe73ed162db0fea5af69d391700a4b75ed34c2c622c6985
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC914 17672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f3.bin
e38429c6adf1c97e6fd463023fa66996bf39b6c4a2e090766380a1846aeef3e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F3 10540 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010efc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFC 16792 bytes