Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bf07213656422db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-10-20 11:22:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 1bc53ee307b895079ceb5efa786e74ce SHA-1: 5cef605eb4a42295ad7bb9a691b7ee5758abd6e6 SHA-256: 2bf07213656422dbeac664b3fb5be3c9d21efa82f7b7510c31a9221b885637fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term=key+crack+freemake+video+converter' in one URL suggests a potential lure for software piracy, a common tactic in phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/88975445488.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/21379817759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616f5f61b27ff---69248692842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2c7040997ebd0f752d4f02a9e9527ce/texesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/nasegitabosoxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616ccc99ca7a4---pezamosukudedarenavixexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleb777.com/fck_upload/file/45660919720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41213183996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/44687160039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajovisena.com/gallery/file/fubasaradum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/25339119978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyrukrc.lt/userfiles/file/fejuguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diepdoanhmetals.com/media/ftp/file/12669261595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021090803594880554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/jabujojonemoluvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcgardening.com/userfiles/file/2021102010211473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/23075084307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/fatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/30305162577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f69e1bca9---sadakivigixesepusofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/xatituxejijavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9ff4d1f89fff7aa8912db7efaffb8a/99663799018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35d32dd694c5925d14e3e74f123dea1/97925271647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/mitapiboxexezezoxipadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityfirstservices.pro/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/17592476291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/896FEnmJZlk/uplcv?utm_term=key+crack+freemake+video+converterPDF 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_off0000de3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE3A 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 3b37526a11465e454b0a29d554d1b6adeb87672cff3226d6565db2075a522fc9
font_01_sfnt_off00010c64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C64 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 587b0d64cc84a7751e8ffaa6bfe31e0e0208c96d12b4fba7e41a66f24261a93f
font_02_sfnt_off000124f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1