Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d8b3bfa5789d4d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-29 02:59:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 052da1e921eaf75055891f7a15da2377 SHA-1: 5d62977b228a5d3a9f80a9a7325823ac67b333bb SHA-256: 2d8b3bfa5789d4d12e8b5832cc3518ee5657601d2dd40c4652dd1f23ad485a5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, likely to distribute malware or facilitate phishing. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a broader pattern of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/20929188856.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdb0f8db55---fadimopadopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/19415350809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/lalekavitodoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/winotepunivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kigimex.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bopokofawedekoteded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39632168770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b68eff4bf1a2ca4893ab4e89100328/15628820756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/jebufuteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/kupakewakosebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/logojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/81304807807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/50738473045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unifor975.ca/userfiles/file/10322070307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/83724402055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/5829580489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/83802507199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurotig.ro/file/kalesifedotexijetipixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traiteur-troyes-mariage-buffet-aube-10.blaisot-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimizunibojusabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4qbttppcl3knus65s8qsbpp5n/guvanapalujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=kissanime+latest+version+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_off0000af23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC735 15852 bytes
SHA-256: 9f18a822d19d03fe01a679fdb77820030509eddd813e99ca7a25f9bafe0ec50e
font_02_sfnt_off0000efca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCA 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 60a759f64f2ca519e10b948c89154ca4d0d91a00e3dbc26d7a34ee1321c8c407