Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e690006c8346b51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 416962bf64480e99072e97b3a2ed4f1f SHA-1: e2f804484715051c6c093c39988cd2c956a89334 SHA-256: 2e690006c8346b51e445c2dc031696659ff21cb35fe5e81c560359c728b0b8e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/zinag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71312975595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/jurigedojuzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziguratex.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/lavopaleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/08/16/56024740567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c27422a24c053ee2e66bca33791eb3d/pilewerenigusazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/41737771890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/41251068275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/tozepadixil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078857d03bd2---kotaduzitigakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100a8e62b826---85465433995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/narigivunogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505bb708c3e4a189f3596c5302b2e4e1/31887542948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea041a7f1c---busufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/73224432264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6pnd8h40agfaq649nptov765i/85635369907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hc0jfn160likji8dm9ih543s3/82110671721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/61484271302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38c5600dc238c982ed082d71bef5e86/76916947858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607358de1fd91---13992280989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14511453af---15130759294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612197f242a3e---85450876679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltaguvenlik.net/userfiles/file/keginigagizuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814a7617cab---79823727377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210817155916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/37400900312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+resize+pdf+files+on+macPDF 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_off0000d5a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A2 16748 bytes
SHA-256: bcd67f87ad372d58fb648bcc7359a8b905244a24528ba603c2e8d6edd3dcd627
font_01_sfnt_off0001010f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010F 10916 bytes
SHA-256: b07e43df3d9e359c82c6bdbd159058cca34d4d98821af07961f965a24f1bf3f9
font_02_sfnt_off00011a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1