Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bc53235b5444ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 04:58:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f0784095a9a03ea3a5ca3ae4b8020f39 SHA-1: 5323436420f9a5f52b78bbd245fc977c610c39d8 SHA-256: 2bc53235b5444ffcf08c459f92be25d950fa531f5d722ac212553e75313f9571
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing attempt or a distribution mechanism for further malware.

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://waxiangyuan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913031045209208.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142b4931498c---17098257996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelascanu.it/uploads/file/lipedemenudofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161489149c641d---josoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaydantuongphongngudep.com/images/news/file/nixolaxefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b170c2f6b6---28654140766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/79718721487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.net/ckfinder/images_store/files/sevemonagomofises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/71115814486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunguoilon.tunhua.vn/ipp/images/uploads/files/14841662847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210913/file/50564535955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/63323619392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/vekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/25905156719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erodiertechnik-wenzel.de/userfiles/file/93604681729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/wufafexodepidesamire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myshalewell.com/userfiles/file/17867371904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roludalinatasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/ripumexirupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e49c28d30c1b2bb2d57ad211044a127/vigojosixubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk-fix.nl/userfiles/image/file/xezusuxewojawafozixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/96751387400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com/files/4381993514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/kudegazipolotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360e5a86d61---nasogoweturivugifetamewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=xplorer+file+manager+apkPDF 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_off0000ddaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAA 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 8bc9d2ee623f56cd6123da000deb6233137da111e13a36b040b0a9a96c3f9c9b
font_01_sfnt_off00010e56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001266d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266D 10532 bytes
SHA-256: f99d06a6321adf07450bd7f5ff01d7394f117e8923dfe4b296c119a955b0687a