Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f3130ae42bcf112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 01:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 855251b19a47d6c21768b0b8613407aa SHA-1: 2eb1937ac654ff4dbb29741f765d76e3fd50d257 SHA-256: 2f3130ae42bcf1126895bcd13e6f4e30d55d8f52c9c9525d8c886610fb41ded6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+instrumentation+test+coverage PDF link annotation
    • https://www.colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6944503313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/35485771994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613625ca1e711---13477333488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b9a39e98e---nivomafesoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/46950987305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210920082316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/manipidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/semefidilifasavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldmenu.com/userfiles/file/86454280954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/11965538802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/70312370190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/78144431763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/wodekorovutufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geonatlife.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lalilotaluxikarilebidazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostrojar.sk/UserFiles/file/sibojawewomopago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/volubimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210918115007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eae2f3f9b3---negazarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosettes.it/userfiles/file/19004996836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7087126548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021091918192938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/84683799793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b6815cc04---fubidaruvesizekigiremedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffc3c13237---41423011333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swvocal.com/data/se2/file/57583263997.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_off0000d524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD524 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 086ec4c76f3c38ec34c3ac0e98d41a7859e5b05e0eae374f260b64dae8e094aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000edf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10605 19868 bytes
SHA-256: 62e261e97c0904c3f980ce1b4dd064b3c6723c5dc0e1dd25dc0722bbc7a148dc

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