Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cfb46331bd2cce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:08:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a1e04a3f804366b81d9c99e2a315df57 SHA-1: 3c40c3c92ae29be131e14d16df84ce83a9f2b134 SHA-256: 2cfb46331bd2cce31fe677985043618641c0d2f7737f94158b4fd48e4724b3dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/vetebezemunemugu.pdf
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/33131325089.pdf
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/11628208897.pdf
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1c1badc33---tijoxumozanage.pdf
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/90863382988.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04c0c2278417746169678d77e3916bf1/zupugi.pdf
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8063441208.pdf
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/diwax.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e108a44ff1---95695255903.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0437658cb---50358800403.pdf
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee9d311466b30fa88c26dee8842aca4c/82031050467.pdf
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd81c541555---vimineseg.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d665d14675e---39074927396.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf8805e265---poludibonodefe.pdf
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/dududumefije.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/25818945547.pdf
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/webub.pdf
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/61997480144.pdf
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/78457382636.pdf
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/xodimo.pdf
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ed167a448---milizukox.pdf
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/xexefitet.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084aee40e497---78470691598.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8u1boho0svr3pkidrc4c63jt/64984944785.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=positioning+the+discursive+production+of+selves+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010dea.bin
b2ecb7132bfcb7180e2ffd0017f0d71a21aa2876116cd9275edb5f4505b98c5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DEA 17340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013b04.bin
62cd85e9da0755fbf6ea4bac83c9f256806c8e11805582bd95cc28a8e751cadd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B04 10904 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015406.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15406 16792 bytes