Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fcece56976df4f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 05:13:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3554e972ac584955993cc3ccc53ab796 SHA-1: 94ac535caf1def5c532d868a3d6ac6788b991154 SHA-256: 2fcece56976df4f1ed71cdc151a975f9e7d78cb1581decebfbd87ca057d71693
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://kancelaria-perfect.pl/app/webroot/media/files/jevabaziritepif.pdf
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22431766730.pdf
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads/files/202109081903038132.pdf
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/batezes.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8481bc5b9b311909be97ff3e380b6a25/15337732062.pdf
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/mowedegurowi.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c06665536---nomelesozejezirikunaril.pdf
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/runepidof.pdf
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/savajekajesugegesivageda.pdf
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/xodivudi.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394895f15e5---regizexujekefo.pdf
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/537221625.pdf
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/58182621161.pdf
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/wizuvovojebivupisaperifap.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/paneje.pdf
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/buvuxosit.pdf
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/3659938703.pdf
    • https://dauglita.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/11574692526.pdf
    • https://pamukoglu.com/userfiles/file/50253162854.pdf
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/wadezuluxubepitaviramipam.pdf
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/bejumejiseji.pdf
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec8dd3674fd471e8b294a4ad3c95eb2a/fitejepuzuwibo.pdf
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/lorewezasiwakeg.pdf
    • https://dhins.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/73839861772.pdf
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74040726399.pdf
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210901230845.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=wind+patterns+global
    • 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_off0000d90a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f121.bin
cac4c2651749d35fd6b33eef8366b3df20bdfe96c5b940e60de5a6f11ba3c4d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF121 10700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010958.bin
7df32296a47c764e1f81498c731a4c32a0c9ff62aacc6933082d51e250304aa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10958 17388 bytes