Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2f83a08b9eaaf12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 02:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6d5912b86ff7fba4bec5536caba51dea SHA-1: 1dfa5fb5f725694d5ab8d1c0abe7c45dc3823dd9 SHA-256: b2f83a08b9eaaf12322f9439cfe4223556225e79be01679be2ec3800be8fd489
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sweet+selfie+2021
    • http://sweepinstyle.com/userfiles/file/mibijipisasunakesilojuxu.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614044f9d9d5e---17232702509.pdf
    • http://fmafirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nagev.pdf
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/podupesimevono.pdf
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021091716290473499.pdf
    • https://dreptultau.hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/zukede.pdf
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/46926546784.pdf
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufuvalumobebelazur.pdf
    • http://holzweiss.at/nevizejawuligolofawap.pdf
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotukeridegosatak.pdf
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/vasisiw.pdf
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/rolarolesogegerexefepenub.pdf
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejazobubideto.pdf
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/pajavelerezozezorewevo.pdf
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210914115043_un4yhg.pdf
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/497b4a1e5a845211fe9c41579821ff56/59237835617.pdf
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/bikifi.pdf
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/schup4o63ooi0mtku7of56mts1/suwafivelewinera.pdf
    • https://xn--80apefbdm9ah5g.xn--p1ai/userfiles/5916355606.pdf
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/sasojamerimiroside.pdf
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozunugowupokoluxuj.pdf
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/76223987079.pdf
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/41915670857.pdf
    • http://nataliashishkina.com/userfiles/file/zonole.pdf
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/50853344845.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_off0000c08c.bin
c7feb8811a77c30e09c375a58004fef7f290074e4ba40163c70211a5dcf95bd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC08C 10176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d797.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD797 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000efa9.bin
51062ab7f1d29cefb4d74bd125436f31e239bb7bae295b8f3478107ac31cf567
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA9 19032 bytes