Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d6677b174819cef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:23:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5dfbf11abcb27ba0f0d51905773a5623 SHA-1: 230c73f233c0dc08c44795163cb796ebbf892d25 SHA-256: 2d6677b174819cef7c1677347e604c7fba09c88a7a407c5eb2cd523ab59817e4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF_URI heuristics and a link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely involving embedded links that lead to further malicious downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://szcftz.com/upload/63944593233.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bba8078bbe---bamirivito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/37344823359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086194fbcc37---16022072736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/142b6e00a145b71a07dfdb9f77261432/70609561352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/68040301763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210728_050831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9741dac308---70406744525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufasugabigotime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/17427623974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52c702dd06c5dd252a9fe537989e876a/zasakabodunuvixomiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/xufusixuduguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luligang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizokufejawotipanewosulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safonosibomowogotaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhssirimpanam.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bonikodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8a0be873d5bd0fc86fa85f214441aa/gogoxajakanavulomapagegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dttcmbnvjrn2mq22r6s05h0haa/buzejadezasemibonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://178.62.148.222:300/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75776991820.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/2082762627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ce5c17dd0---minobevibaduviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/3854942879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/dovijidinopuvawibunupezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=lector+de+pdf+pro+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_off0000dc57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF469 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 71da1de4e63ad9160cf3b0c6e70cca856d7fe12ecb418f50c356cc4d5698bc74
font_02_sfnt_off000124bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124BB 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 939c2e516d643fb1010895e7c6d64068d3fff7f9ff14e01b34abebf4a9b7bb87