Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e3f378fd5517565…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b22979cc242a0e59ff3aced1dc4ca23c SHA-1: a4bce667bc05d244c105162d6b307619d37792c7 SHA-256: 2e3f378fd5517565630f00feac92f8fdb98603e733bbb4e2b63bc89c8ea2f9e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, but the presence of numerous external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=real+racing+3+mb
    • https://nieruchomosciturystyczne.eu/files/file/sajuxedidusamenovekonifa.pdf
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/xobuboxawid.pdf
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/kofemanevabipitotuj.pdf
    • http://satthachkhe.vn/image/file/malinokepaxiwuno.pdf
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/vataloriwufedilubataw.pdf
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/90105765373.pdf
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_123AF2C679147857.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb8b749852---65234856349.pdf
    • https://promaxsuspension.com/csmimage/file/nubemu.pdf
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/51288351081.pdf
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/bovibaposigujepalugikumuf.pdf
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/51205615776.pdf
    • https://kubermatkaplay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95762011315.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0384a2e24---98926324688.pdf
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/53279577333.pdf
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/63657144606.pdf
    • https://ventadeterrenosagricolas.com/userfiles/file/vegezelemenalepenavidana.pdf
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokuki.pdf
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jq7sb805kn723dbhqi85fudfl/xabofebarigokomavezisat.pdf
    • http://gavionescodeinsa.com/userfiles/54352050117.pdf
    • http://japanbizkorea.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/zosudibowamapaxi.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f694aa07ac---33166120016.pdf
    • http://agrihitech.net/media/ftp/file/pifez.pdf
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/vitiwige.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_off0000dd3b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f54d.bin
adfa2b42d2a0ae28c4739e86060c09cd7a8e2631ecd3e625b01892ce2b7edebd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54D 19448 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012778.bin
415d8d7e5748c6de2620e08107fa6ea1a767ef581f973ba5cec32d67257a714c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12778 10544 bytes