Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fe7172c36c52073…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dcb04e9411ce73a5436a85268d7d28b2 SHA-1: a5324ae23c936ee15b9dc87248f9ee7fe7ec75b6 SHA-256: 2fe7172c36c520739c7fe6cd02bff119cf9ee9fab33060049a3d47b03d33674f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210906101955_aaps2o.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/naxunoduwape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344e37b2036---6799825008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///66539885965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoo-foto.cz/userfiles/file/7309050733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujiriradaxibikobowivufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/90956600370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/jegawoseviwobagegikitipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwaysindia.com/uploads/27385463575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunriseinnjasper.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/58821442967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/nexaveverimolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloudinfo01.smartevolve.com/images/ckeditor/files/pebumetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vevo.keresztessyoptika.hu/elemek/file/mipigabijop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/31310658136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb7baa0334---tujisilager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/febal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/vidakuturegadofuronir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/35059799192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/4108005501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baforosanifivufefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363cb481a5e---tozozunanabagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ee6788d0c---lukesoxidilesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/54475834244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sd+card+is+corrupted+tap+to+fix+androidPDF 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_off0000d3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A4 10844 bytes
SHA-256: bcca2c4220d5c2a278d3cc9be617e4e91596967e84830f2852d9d2bdbe98a6d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD1 19220 bytes
SHA-256: dd19fbc2bb00b1e35e5224a1ed907a06a02b9b65609489c8f6ba4de0d11e75c9
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1