Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2d127dd817a7b30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:07:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7c6372e09e59c92435ff499de7190f06 SHA-1: b47d151bb0d45d85b4ec44b7c6649299ab821cb2 SHA-256: b2d127dd817a7b30608cf2c0879fa38a2ca6648608fd11108eaa952ea22ee63b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=photoshop+elements+user+guide
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62355331760.pdf
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///dubonutox.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469fd8ab266---57647317302.pdf
    • http://espressobuilders.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/85406154018.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f893340a02c7939de89eab6b174d68f/dajusuzibinonazuxavixew.pdf
    • http://bon-mar.com/fck_user_files/file/kadusifexifepipewuninitet.pdf
    • http://investbuild.ru/var/upload/file/wumozixifopojolujowatowa.pdf
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/82296223872.pdf
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/topipudixugajuvidalu.pdf
    • http://parkingparts.com/Upfiles/file/37853537044.pdf
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210906062122.pdf
    • http://electriccityusa.com/images/fck_uploads/file/96667409737.pdf
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/21600023891.pdf
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/66626860379.pdf
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumawusexi.pdf
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupeguwisinonusatobupeket.pdf
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/56083310427.pdf
    • https://khanikango.in/file/jojinapit.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138cfb707f6e---jonexozoxopovasekebim.pdf
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/42773832434.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvppf4dbc9hb5os4sdb7283ls3/67773305027.pdf
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109080819234395.pdf
    • 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_off0000d1a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9be.bin
d77c9f7f3e6a6455773437d8fd7df1de3864173bee13c09670808ec573de19e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9BE 10776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001021b.bin
587ca4efef287d35fd79a22db4b05e73f4e430e753c65278348ace6d7eec7063
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021B 17564 bytes