Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ee37508e0b336b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 30c5ed7c2e2740393f793f580533d9fe SHA-1: bd5136775f3448f2fc47039b540c04ef7565e723 SHA-256: 2ee37508e0b336b18e5bf7e8feaea2b98d8f4d80a9e8574179517787f413cfe0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of link farms hosted on compromised or disposable infrastructure. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=relationship+between+frequency+and+distance
    • http://altera.ukrstroyka.com/content/xuploadimages/file/39865109818.pdf
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/36570568047.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/985af1b5a5314787b8e0dbc802fab22e/8558138673.pdf
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5346898185.pdf
    • https://dafelia.com/files/nagedatiwerepifanuvon.pdf
    • https://www.confirmedtour.com/files/99276216176.pdf
    • http://trinitysportsandleisure.ie/userfiles/file/gudurupupasagup.pdf
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/zokesemigupasito.pdf
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7006e372d6e677a0cf0b3aaac4b0fa/nanikalidapapil.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf16q9aq947flhgf6a77a04lbm/zowabavejodusivuginuwur.pdf
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/65193274233.pdf
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/4115999187.pdf
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/foxabiguruvuxibo.pdf
    • http://cobweb.janci.net/upload/files/tolefimakamizatesujega.pdf
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/61575899027.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f960a1cf2f---2679366860.pdf
    • http://fmmvn.net/userfiles/files/45343627384.pdf
    • https://gtijsr.com/userfiles/file/70434281513.pdf
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xosewolevuxitos.pdf
    • https://kattliv.com/kattliv/admin/userfiles/file/1700462444.pdf
    • https://geneolock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zopazirapubus.pdf
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50686766805.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141dc44e6561---99529766671.pdf
    • https://manenshop.com/upload/files/10184719699.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_off0000b4e1.bin
149882fad1a1ef7d988872dff77bd5c4d82c78ff317d1dc203516c74e6b3322b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4E1 11348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf2a.bin
ae9ab9065a322833704d6e578eaa2e099670acc2832574e9a83eaf0952066abc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF2A 15888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f787.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 16792 bytes