Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2df08935f5c9cbd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:25:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be9e8bfbb2ed636ac65213a460a3e11f SHA-1: 692a70004f42a12f7d13e6335314e1395d024e53 SHA-256: 2df08935f5c9cbd37dce931c5ee99f3eda58443991949cd97b4ca041ccc987a3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' suggests the document may also instruct users to scan a QR code, further supporting a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13694697937.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--brneneskontor-landsforening-b0c.dk/userfiles/file/20551857846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabancilojistik.com/userfiles/file/81142642999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/telodebosugimuzinite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210914091010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opersan.com/file/80459512831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c3b7a08ab4---zotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/83502097447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/17776559582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincesorvarshop.hu/editor_up/37146213748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumixememulavipasuvutage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/wasinoxanaputan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcyy88.com/userfiles/file/2021090723084773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/40531317816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/defegixorakanuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilisixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/82727218268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/posusokevanomoravavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogufokixuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f10e365d8a9407d143436f33361662/36775331510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/jafefopoxutujewugona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417f4bc49f0---kinowexavowalugujozawuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0575zl.com/userfiles/file/moriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/litapepebamazoporuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/juvaworajuwinufivisowofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/wokogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=where+does+android+come+fromPDF 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_off0000ed4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4F 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 34c403a61edbc8b141105777ead4958d89d4b68023082ce1005c6b163ca63e88
font_01_sfnt_off000119f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F0 10588 bytes
SHA-256: c78138984de50b32a336c0a621d7b2c7ce8650d022242bab87dc4dcfb3ffdb3e
font_02_sfnt_off000131ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1