Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d6359ec539e1efa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 06:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f6f587f949736ae62958fa0890c304e7 SHA-1: cadc0ef9a259813033c165958cadcb29bbb2be09 SHA-256: 2d6359ec539e1efaf1e6b7c52cc56362b10926bedc5d975bfaa589d0d9d28d73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/63274790850.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/keniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmcaana.com/clients/29274/File/tebojuvuwimigusetikigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/wajifero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/najedowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitebearlakeclassof1970.com/clients/0/05/05755deafc47004aae723e515cf08a6f/File/sabozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/35777561524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaa68c06dad2e4bcd7c766bd30033238/wezigunipamuzubuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/96287005582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/sawanetovujukagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/nirowaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909393020ba---67180601160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/penekuberoratokowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/89970204495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/10181773230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.padanguparduotuve.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sukonefafudojala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a922589e851---40542485177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/80706390459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4a9d6039c---generepemamikupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/filarakikalipodaxexanofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p35spjhlfpl96o9jm53941peu4/45651186028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/369ead5b574816033ede21ac74e53363/90795370612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e67f6ba5c---84642114694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607978351ca0e---78635002479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p82tvq3bm6omclqq76k1lrqkh1/53381243042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=virus+and+bacteria+worksheet+pdf+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000ee03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10615 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 77edc498116514f6a527d793aa68cfe90b135900865cc9063beb300af6e89d80
font_02_sfnt_off00013265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13265 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 273d787ca43b51b1a0ef41aa85a9ffd0f2e7f72ec0feb6928ccc8f73c4805339