Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e844bc208cd4fe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0b746c1041cb63725f1a45033ee2e3dd SHA-1: 2834cc05b9fe9edc355d439edb0ad9b9cce0d162 SHA-256: 2e844bc208cd4fe35e3af6de01ab96ca558b5f9dd78eeae1512476e4fbb68210
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/93890055211.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/vilikuxizemotizadinazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/vovasunowadodipujananuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12243544092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/puvumedinudivuxafefanatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/zamorunufegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulator.com/d/files/bozapineladutexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/bosafokinimezofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130bc56bf415---gojutudipuxeferogulifalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c53ee7f22---tapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/xopidinolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tattica.byespresso.com/app/webroot/files/upload/files/9365997486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/75851611716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a19884b961---vivegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67dc4f9fec39ec316bf74c22090dbd23/rugiruxujovadokofubimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/mavogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/85224206850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/45377311614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41202396946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/jarukidafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayepnuocmia.vn/data/ckfinder/files/54926847148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=filme+online+cocoPDF 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_off0000c04f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC04F 19572 bytes
SHA-256: 2486f6880d622064872b7eaa4bed2e02753285caba0139c56ddee12953de2345
font_01_sfnt_off0000f31f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31F 9840 bytes
SHA-256: 86d6d287f472b0b753e4014c1e48f076a7451117c880906f5e9c627c970b0846
font_02_sfnt_off0001089e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1