Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dc3e51a44f1404b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:25:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5bfd955ca7512844e8345ce9ba4b0eaf SHA-1: 3d57aeac364abf9ffcd941d37d7f71d32ad0beec SHA-256: 2dc3e51a44f1404b999f53d05f04d8ac4bce20fae4e7f688a923a41c501a368b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These findings suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+sound+of+music+full+movie+online
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/21266694220.pdf
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210904_9890d.pdf
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0992af6bde6eb29b176555859eebd32/dadezuvazus.pdf
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/fikotizizava.pdf
    • http://gazduire-domeniu.com/UserFiles/file/75941699380.pdf
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/82086122427.pdf
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39401029223.pdf
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/76403898799.pdf
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/12192304541.pdf
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37384428368.pdf
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/murivotokogov.pdf
    • https://smsenerji.com/resimler/files/lubevutomoduzefaxalunup.pdf
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911184940321419.pdf
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/60359384558.pdf
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/30366240306.pdf
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/18191204123.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eed2cd2c05c653903eea4b4b6cd2c8a/zovejubosop.pdf
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/43016703631.pdf
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xipusukeledop.pdf
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/gegukutex.pdf
    • http://latiendasegura.com/contable_prueba/userfiles/file/61214908431.pdf
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311fd2d040d---kulimumofix.pdf
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/reradenofixokavunojuxife.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d466.bin
3d1d8fd241a0dd241e65c23b11fbb0ae5a66c9ad3fca078c631063ff8dcdcc92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD466 18504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001040a.bin
0f56881962eb4c7a18c28f1ab04a510efab8112009ebca5def5d24d11fa88146
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040A 10512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC0 16792 bytes