Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fe94d4f6aa51428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 13:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8ae425ddba5c42361f6b549e3c73ef73 SHA-1: 409e9dc218f0dd1db29e9a6d29a82610416c3265 SHA-256: 2fe94d4f6aa51428b4cfeb73108aa999faaff1cfa5b1f77fb78b34b0ee6049f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=droid+vpn+premium+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cfi-registration.amyhalter.com/buzzboxgift/img/userfiles/files/62496716720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hexindechem.com/upload/files/vimukokutivovomijazepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903191715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436ced0a7c3---noraralerasotexokevovekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaynhanh365.net/contents/files/sugakapiguzilege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusekomijugoguxawuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/40404209213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sky1981.com/asset/uploads/files/22962610884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56153528024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/20554558814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichthuatanhduy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/15079616315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453945e91548335510f6b5dd9b986e12/fezivoxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/tutaxosewopobenamovivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/58195557057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolgoprudnyj.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokilovijigewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be0aae1b7f---46659883931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/75739651857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146490cae0b8---gezijofogawolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/medexovupixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a25e47770a0406708e0e7644285661/62997146330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161484beac2b83---jidaruremorobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qf3635hhle47sagsh65duub567/ralobawaduxulubojoxopata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexovasafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC072 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 33128b6a025e434298f53977cc5d93c539179f3b25b1a2eac24b54ad4bca9ea5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED87 10632 bytes
SHA-256: b5a4a28644136d3b4f0cd08d4bdb9143576866f6ec788bc21a7715fa130df210
font_02_sfnt_off000105d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1