Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eb264be965d980a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fd7a5ffbebffbe2771fc0b7b6a1476f0 SHA-1: 443cbb6459b906f75bb46e25c169458891c30596 SHA-256: 2eb264be965d980a4d2908583d492380f3d191389c41f528475e5142c45e4492
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple URIs pointing to external resources, with several heuristics indicating these links are part of a link farm on potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external links, including one to a raw IP address, indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/3160564535.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48937486519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibikid.ru/upload/34230349255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c51e082fb---butuxuromebalewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pzhjintai.com/upload/files/sejixobunenetozirolixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/jipapesejitisilusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/59126108239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/sutiwadubexavalokogalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/39501934607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95f12e1647e1a751b85216b9d3622fa/21695414867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompassztuki.pl/Image/files/8283375689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210906182623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/99805249917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/89253823849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/50915697917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yusungchart.com/userData/board/file/tutolilureziwenuzaxakajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/mifigepilav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/vaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/pazufix.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1722b5d178cb642efd1f524c10b055fc/vunatatevorimimasovitugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cd81ac00d---37565113264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=thinking+in+bets+annie+duke+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2D 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9397da107dabfe26ccfee903e905e4f42a73c5e41dea6816103c03734857da
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59D 18168 bytes
SHA-256: a517dac491133ea433d893b63eee2108eab833fb2f212a865185818697e05d2b
font_02_sfnt_off0001247e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1