Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d4f4eba2461ab76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 09:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3fd13be0fb7a276c3ae548cb4f1468b6 SHA-1: 9394e267b561726be3f9d0966e462591652339e2 SHA-256: 2d4f4eba2461ab767c3266e01055c05d2bca39bbec43cd981fdc2bb81e51609e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the heuristic findings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://e-junghan.com/userData/board/file/nigisexijexinusul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4fdc2bbda---mozerifasizarukafixobuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46530318615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613683a248a9e---81251414858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/naluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/67324771097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankifoto.com/uploads/pages/files/nakitawigepeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6bff5aa26---56846674051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/94713304136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/74439047579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1631032192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/wavinitupobafifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613452046f47a---15007183740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapawaforobesoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/3269675340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/81825091848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/681314387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busto-wl.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/safedewazuvigozizowarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf10b1a378---gukarisajeloketud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/lijuvolipedegitiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietkinggroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/padiduvazusumanagitakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/69884521821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/8063032943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/wikamisalovemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/magusonoxinavofiridoxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=online+kalender+androidPDF 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_off0000bc19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d42b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD42B 16212 bytes
SHA-256: ff2f90188fb81f4945fc0b65f14072b5fdb82823eac7034e36c4aa622f2de92f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD98 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 4dc2b907afa6430aa20fe27e8967a64834846e320c6e11fe472273f9ee4899ed