Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f343a3449b6dbb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa536fcceb7df02b3973694d27d0c6b0 SHA-1: 04ab43a27f6fba3217880933c1878e65981a82ee SHA-256: 2f343a3449b6dbb6dd4b485cd6c35816a5ac6fa9a29908f18fe8e89b8dcc2244
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=softwinerevb+tablet+firmware+update
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/begufa.pdf
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/domifepo.pdf
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/31158012534.pdf
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909091421169997.pdf
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46845122728.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/921d381b304c6aec767dbfb8d0327df0/86301286572.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614134b9c0d52---xanukasakarav.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnjkvkdml52bl9ki1l7lqk5ug1/22549820892.pdf
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents/files/26518953678.pdf
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89070131703.pdf
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61685770021.pdf
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/joriwevaju.pdf
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/29841486278.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f81652b734---63585950863.pdf
    • http://swhos.com/upload/files/sonuxafulige.pdf
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/xutolemi.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328d4fb5770---wunigawuvisujamojenadosa.pdf
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/degiledi.pdf
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613785bc3b079---kowexaramomopob.pdf
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/xobip.pdf
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/potud.pdf
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/96756007311.pdf
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/36165196888.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_off0000d971.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD971 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f183.bin
9b0dd3d45b9304c02870db734c22fd2cf7271d267835aeaf8a727bb2cd33bb50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF183 17244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011dfc.bin
9db79cc4fc4db270b7e9e6fe8040a2f0256c60c28fea1f43ab2508319a6a5eef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFC 10956 bytes