Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c68393960c9a496…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-30 21:53:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 057f7b8688a146c3d6c1993c41e696d5 SHA-1: 2c144a03fce027a71e815f828f12b4cf677f78a2 SHA-256: 2c68393960c9a4968f37ce1a64c8888b0ffea9a4e9f2d534eb56c9640f6f4b09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs, including those with 'utm_term' parameters suggesting tracking, points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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=ulozto+downloader+android PDF link annotation
    • https://hattshopping.com/admin/assets/images/ckfiles/19882685645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/38691410230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/vonunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ec5d632a0---11876794417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/desovipenibivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/50958800607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/wibuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenflameenergy.com/userfiles/file/vosejiwobote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotopekikefexezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/32738078963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenlinejsc.com/userfiles/file/49262387457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/fiteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/movutebokakobedazafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210916084803744172irylh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614235177c395---46529852221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/47261178772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/51713515593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathrainbow.com/userfiles/file/bixuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vp-dmsh.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakamalirevefixamowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albertscience.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zagajosonituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/masubovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yurisolomko.com/userfiles/file/44277377641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/wajifusiduwadomijafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/maroxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8r78b0dik5nmt9ocv81g4f1q/livuguvuzogipesarekozo.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_off0000b2e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2E5 14776 bytes
SHA-256: 89aacc72880c72f039f20baeed5a12cc0049d69826646f7c0170221b317190df
font_01_sfnt_off0000d886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD886 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f09d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09D 10228 bytes
SHA-256: e4ed1ff910d76500b1947dad592ef6be8f7633b771e23ab5298fd2f30cd51075