Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c2887f9ff9af2a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 635fadd1906d7855e9c170d51419edab SHA-1: 6dda7e86d97cb49fae0867df89081d8385e896ea SHA-256: 2c2887f9ff9af2a97656c56d6fbeff161e42234ac66348a35c3b61867f9c85d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Heuristics suggest it's a link farm on disposable hosting, and ClamAV identifies it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tratamento+de+neuropatia+diab%C3%A9tica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962873053c0---kokegulevuwolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logomupifoxijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/480a998401335cf8a6f1b78d27909788/30354342524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/nijusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b19c92c1e---tegavafiwesomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/nufibifitebolubokupula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke9nj6kcogv3u1ln57cmnhdo56/linukumapevoludojen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd12fbbeada---rakupafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/leborabojiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb18d36693b---53866436471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b2271121f---84589282913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turasmobilya.com/img/editor/image/file/vogokiputebajenezebagage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/95304540815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/guvuxetizor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ok22f8d7uc57g8oguid1d366/nitifawivupilitususum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourlady-schools2.com/userfiles/files/22303725159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4425da06cc98378cb5852c6ca4b186a/69725390397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/xowumemugemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e308d912a---33126843218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5be428059---50133741846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandercdg.com/clients/36029/File/pudavagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/32191353818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f934f14730---32269732456.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_off0000e123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE123 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF935 18696 bytes
SHA-256: b986ef5557ba6c2547d63db96fac21d41622af6fc5e6df6ee7f0af4a7bb8ed81
font_02_sfnt_off0001284a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1284A 10924 bytes
SHA-256: aedd19effec1126581cd58c523f92d10ebeee51c2600475a57bd955391ef3995