Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e067d0628b17e74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e845ce891fbdb7d6f5d7607c92b03e85 SHA-1: f755f010f84129d0191613ca2c5fda4f7a0309b9 SHA-256: 2e067d0628b17e745290c7acb0edba131122e28233e3ae82099e608043606852
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+mod+traffic+rider+unlimited+money PDF link annotation
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/32600321119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/98770026701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/raxezosozosukona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/minoluxufuvusugamovineki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/2043832243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a662b5105---tisanaguroweditexiput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/69987132390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/munixinefanopupazanizeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/75934697199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400723d4d1c---vadojudonuwobiguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/51117535150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/53039113496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/96210968335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/42391040019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378322b5420---11835497125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/fekibudagexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/8118794231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/61459679713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/nexupepudevavoziseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/62107439678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilleremembers.com/media/52254706866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d3efcf867---12470484736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bretagne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lepanifuvisalimikesidubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614654d3c65db---dadexafolavujibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB600 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE17 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 1c48869d3480ec4ac213af70ab7f3dd60fba37479642f9e50bdc9af5ca86b235
font_02_sfnt_off0000e751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE751 16640 bytes
SHA-256: 22c0e592ac5f8c1d3f65aa14635770512704da4aa7f0a4e9b30afdfaabb780fe