Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e84765dfcd17655…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:53:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e1f232293de1dbf7b3e1474810173453 SHA-1: a38f76f37ada4ad3f77fb50b1d19c91251ae4e8e SHA-256: 2e84765dfcd17655aaa814c8c93198b44131d1fca52df6c1de5c39f479396667
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=caterpillar+d12+bulldozer PDF link annotation
    • https://otterdisplay.com/userfiles/file/52402018769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesuriped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badanie-wody.pl/galeria/file/dugigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/pexewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/xuxatadinazevipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c207298c9---dojifonurafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/5514236730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/bodojotodaruwuvibevokepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/dolumolufoputodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/xavolajevakomolizivogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/zajepenavuleremavozazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/46464577116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhtrangia.com/Images_upload/files/62869882317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/files/vevipizofaxufogukofad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/siwemulagedofevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fbtsk72pfm1ipnnmte8quj6os/95005982973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledspectrumthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83387647084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karaari.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/27312176838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9143c8e80---26077767060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355090b2608---kojojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raovat72.vn/uploads/news_file/nijawulidejemawabugi.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_off0000ebec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FE 17340 bytes
SHA-256: de5a502be62ff066b0afc0f0b7be84c462b3f836c2f3b74cdbb19d1f5f99c53f
font_02_sfnt_off000130ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130EE 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 6fd4ae87f60a163c35d5e552c030fe2064f9dd70259d3cae6c66afa1006ea07f