Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2f3127586860441…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:46:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2659c1d0d6180640a4aa2b567968faa4 SHA-1: 4792eaafea3b8830600099c23dcf5704a76ceb84 SHA-256: c2f31275868604418c4abd190132d443bb29936fae3cceb681bc1d5292485a26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to various websites, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting a phishing lure. The PDF also leverages compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a tactic to host malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+unlock+if+i+forgot+pattern
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosotepoguk.pdf
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/vunusalavinijogigi.pdf
    • http://smalternatywa.pl/media/upload/files/0a2c28e17dc6c0edfb37da003093f194.pdf
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/35790865913.pdf
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d88e4203cf---38600185995.pdf
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/59149497006.pdf
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/56346751879.pdf
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/difan.pdf
    • https://samsungklimamodelleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vapofelax.pdf
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27715122145.pdf
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/xexuzivamevariwufebuser.pdf
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72445575449.pdf
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/74586383466.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f222f3bd1a---19233515703.pdf
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/panadiwavotu.pdf
    • http://plusdesignwebsite.com/userfiles/file/sapogazumosa.pdf
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142bf0f409f4---27447629836.pdf
    • https://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/76088760651.pdf
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/74323319308.pdf
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/67682109792.pdf
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/sizepoxafofokived.pdf
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d20bf387e---ruxudopal.pdf
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/palikodizevirovuler.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_off0000bd2a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD2A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d541.bin
3c8b86dba6e400fbb31d71f17fdc36d6db3ed091973ea91f3fa976244900e5b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD541 10756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee28.bin
c9320120af5282669f422231d7672183cf82fac831b9d442e7667769a3c216bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE28 19008 bytes