Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2480a4d9309dd09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:55:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 95a3d4c8ff2c613ebe2d3e014c50a14d SHA-1: a3f3552b9bb50aac7b3932f254433f9e596670c5 SHA-256: b2480a4d9309dd09edde05a311c655eb80dcd335fdd5559b8827a3872520c9ce
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+set+a+video+as+your+lock+screen PDF link annotation
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/62548614874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nj-rshb.com/v15/Upload/file/20219111121404690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m951j9bq3kc8qntofutug9gr0h/78596439686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/duxokoduzabunopebimujal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahgrp.com/uploads/foxoxabegopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dottoridegregorio.it/public/file/jafidigifinesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theurbanbazzaar.com/userfiles/file/40862772125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b289173f4e---namopuxovonulupexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/zinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/99403832171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/12501077192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/28008699516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodomus.com.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68711896452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/91054917135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarenpinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/talusozarenosegapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/wafaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiroranibozegagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.painters-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/kimivewikigixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98579753621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jv-cms.crazy-jessie.nl/uploads/files/75228317487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6407944d5---27042422358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210902_115356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34886267925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_6508E551C51AA8E7.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_off0000dc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46F 19068 bytes
SHA-256: fb8a648c434449399f95b80443ffd5d8780e7cec5491d30fa277229913497b66
font_02_sfnt_off00012644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12644 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 5b99fbd06f2117b47a03f9aec89c8e7fde69e6d2468d1cd32c9d877dc2853388