Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2ccf59576d3e313…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 14:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eb22f3117c99b923df4eec39a91aaf7b SHA-1: 7e26456b58763336bb57ef6ab23ee1795319ccc5 SHA-256: b2ccf59576d3e31366790f1712d92c1b5292c6726de8fbec651a65ef30fe10c7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests the PDF is capable of executing malicious code. ClamAV and ML classifiers also identified this PDF as malicious, likely due to its phishing and trojan characteristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hiedu+scientific+calculator PDF link annotation
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/miponuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef7df43964---vodivejoxijadimevelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84216881693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogogizawojokanipuken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/71614523352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69851242234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/47148598497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63566261555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18915466395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61687547494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promtour-rural.ro/userfiles/file/xasanavereposelowibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopguepes72.fr/userfiles/file/remafaginugeturevitokari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomdythai.com/userfiles/files/najibesuzumutotutivejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/domoruvexinugaluragagepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82275896877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bbeb1b1e517ea6f4449b779b25e0288/76501125120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osayit.com/images/file/99378417433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a278543a8d---94231223880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.gr/userfiles/file/15619473665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/46257896435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ataru.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32075261709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/kowikajisutuxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/fajadumugof.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_off0000e632.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE632 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 900741cbf33c64ccd072887ed9200ae1406d4e13b0cd311f979813c25d22234d
font_01_sfnt_off00011919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11919 10560 bytes
SHA-256: e47f274a3d1a7c130f8724d67fcdf06ebb340fea36722f2f5a4a4fcb5979497c
font_02_sfnt_off00013142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13142 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1