Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d85b38f10978135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a777447957c22da9583af7f0d63b33a3 SHA-1: 6f5647f4f2bb70f262ac50579bf5caa5cd5b38cf SHA-256: 2d85b38f1097813545104115f2d03b079da688fc02c03b86b548f05c5571b12c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The primary function appears to be directing users to malicious content through a link farm, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lewum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.atsamuihaus.com/image/upload/File/27669634001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/ralilobutuboluzofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivucota.com/upload/files/lewanubelodutaxetexefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunghiephuylog.com/upload/files/37258607187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c9a047e18---60609901455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinscooking.nl/twins/userfiles/file/pixixukovisijexunidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booburger.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/50110871918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84976626553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdr.friend-match.com/upload/files/sibavogerigafunijirefazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96659134164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b4d543013---rebivofibenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lemaxoniwozotamulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/giroxunorumomaxawoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/79723914369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repowegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/pimosukuzaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drmhkikrlc96nclt85a5c3i0j3/19741848453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/xewuwarokazusaribatarugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387ad0827bd---mikidexogivewiwugifaseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/matupopilawedanave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=free+anime+streaming+apps+for+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_off0000f10b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10B 17812 bytes
SHA-256: cfeeae43b7a989f325c760f0e42c8bd0cb32c71f4195690cec55d876238ef041
font_01_sfnt_off00011e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136A7 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 175cdd9f36fac4d32c76641cb29f02231a1270e067216b6a78b9af403f32623b