Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f3787303ea271db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:05:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 19309c3ad866f72a65b0dbf5c5db5a4f SHA-1: 1808cd28e837ba510eacd321349aa59cb05b1919 SHA-256: 2f3787303ea271db228c98f02c46924bf298b794f27310f55e401dc387311ade
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/16388332693.pdf
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/rivilibabadozuzudamaxatax.pdf
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/78338488793.pdf
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/newum.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/metonojojaxakexesa.pdf
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/765113fd108eacc6be07fc22d892cd93/23927657091.pdf
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/didag.pdf
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96009245c---9723934621.pdf
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/69823744589.pdf
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70603d7dd6ffccbc1fc9774202f528d0/78455753094.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f936c8f77a---73522565361.pdf
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/73876680164.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e79e20854fdb9713679985a9ba69abc6/remigu.pdf
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/44334625287.pdf
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608354fb9f026---begorebowulan.pdf
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38anfs0rj6sbfu7mv3cbs7ppc0/jesojimifeta.pdf
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/dawexarewomibomibagubugiz.pdf
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffff754342---bijuraxajinamoko.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17d73c04d4---filirajonugisenuris.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac37b384960---mulebugojipebitu.pdf
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/39133950440.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=equation+of+plane+perpendicular+to+line
    • 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_off00011e37.bin
328702fd4c43bd83012d65e728e29d5bffcc5b39776fab8fddecf5ed5775ea83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E37 10672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013683.bin
3eab5708360316fb4ec8299d4d8c5af55c222ec2954ee2e5ab90279169e732b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13683 17268 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000163f0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163F0 16792 bytes