Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2f41e4e890634bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:36:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2ad767489ff178ef2f7f9f9a030431b1 SHA-1: 61d373bc7315e9400413cd7de1b3bb795bfdbb8b SHA-256: b2f41e4e890634bf38cdf42162aef823f9293965595f44e8f0e78152d834c1fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of these links and the overall detection by security tools strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=saala+khadoos+full+movie+download+720p PDF link annotation
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55562582325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents/files/93439310569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meijialx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novesogupasavelonepokimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/91855698524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swapnauraan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59653720137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vevo.keresztessyoptika.hu/elemek/file/wororiravuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75079938739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s255qu05o8pdp05m62cd8h2m41/9719259104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/mogutonepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/jiwirexojureno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://support-trevianum.nl/userfiles/files/fuvuguzoxuwedemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/40295858593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://innotek.vn/uploads/news_file/mesolufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345d62794c9---rifuzabijafazidemavadino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161443c4d9d68b---xatawuwurobepefulajotebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/tezarinope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/medut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/foxinuzifofumedubadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109081802564485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109050523436011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356c42117ca---dejon.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_off0000d074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD074 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88B 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 13f048370c9ddffc09bf7edcd9c467428184b0f63dff0f32cd1cf6eaaa5e5cd4
font_02_sfnt_off000102ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EE 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 8d3f2aad049278e1f1f8d039114e62b364f450eb339cc6d9f9a25ad56a038171