Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ce6acd94fe7abc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:54:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: be7afd05b3d404a0594630ea8a014c5f SHA-1: 7ebf77282e2b5561e09c529670900f67ce487907 SHA-256: 2ce6acd94fe7abc38b5e606b3a882e3b7a07e22d23c1cf08be3042631b95453c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, and contains a visual 'download' lure. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/81499646246.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/gudibowitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12waktu.com/contents/files/bedagexebobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaukiaplinka.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimokafiwufisemomoverup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18673537003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaldreamindia.com/webcms/file/29483646848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614052a0c6f36---netof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346a5a632fc---54051667928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazraeir.com/images/upload/files/73924970855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepcongnghiepphuchung.vn/userfiles/file/mofowegiguzoledazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d421509325673cc4db94eee5df17795/67156243592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109071817596404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34633053263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://touristclub.in/userfiles/file/22237051947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/zigopevazabagipoluzufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced10bbedea9fa74ff3c65c97415347a/63774609928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5a9517d55---70062560663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodzlomu.com/userfiles/file/26939569292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/joniwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/xutotiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baruraprotidin.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/kuxejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songdolandmarkcity.com/userfiles/file/7385865496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/dufenirixote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/pojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ea49d14f6e4bbbc6ed90835fcbc7fa/51761272486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/58736907003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=best+video+to+mp3+converter+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_off0000dbe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE7 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 3c454657c80f950fcf1566186e50b864e43d81147176eeedaf4fdc3b6dbd5610
font_01_sfnt_off000107e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFE 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 3382eb4347a1b958cae96f54b44bf56c6013a21a8a26fe184b8eefa440ce0b30