Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f3f199429c41a74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 59abce4d20c4b0af4af976dd4ae23bf0 SHA-1: a58ad7130f95a7dfe1bd7f346b878dd30b40af78 SHA-256: 2f3f199429c41a74bae597528a2965e87b3af3b18756f0a6b06cf325f48b70cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, indicating a lure to download a malicious file. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/dizatiwakede.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/74166775932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/larebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/91080419785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/noxakijelilebopoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c6fbbed55---87978118567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j84tbqoiu0pg57kdqmrgqcsmv6/8134919960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609875850dfb5---69217834194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e220e271d123fdb9496ab4034c9a1a8d/xelitolubosuwoserov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/turux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/gerebepetozagoxitobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/zadonebitivipesolazulolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cgt8p6782coiuhu3iv4g3668u4/84320471291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a66806581---lozasawile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790468cddc8---xogapesirasewosavopasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/33278271372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/ziwodoledumujegaladelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/zikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peeweeslearningcenter.org/clients/5/54/545fcf94abc6bccf175f3035c740e6d3/File/30413474095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b78e7005b9d1311444189ea31765884/12658867357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3e58ef69---23174098113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mm1qnkunvuuo4pgmi9p3krlnda/dujafagijosudeliwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17728998b1---kojunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=nda+1+2019+answer+key+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_off0000c121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC121 10868 bytes
SHA-256: a62e270a0bd37236a27dfd3cb4c583e1c9930e87ce1205bf290be897e1449a42
font_01_sfnt_off0000da94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A6 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 2658652bb094182482bfd2b03d4c7159d967e021c6574b1daba0bae5fd8b8574