Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1884e2d3d56bcb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 09:35:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2b5e7a9c29e4e5d919a4af0e77f2593d SHA-1: 76332c27c75b420ce612666d9638e72e6ea3f9ec SHA-256: d1884e2d3d56bcb9d2e8563e2d920efdcdd58cbfa742a5d1612b8e4151f7d8d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The presence of 'utm_term=get+on+top+unblocked' in one URL suggests a phishing or scam lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=get+on+top+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://www.eatvirukai.lt/uploads/files/kevuzokorigituluvawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/93042020332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/45488577556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/dusekitemovuvegiwikuxafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44990810852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/50555336106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/subarazasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenfengsi.com/wfs/WebFiles/file///2021092113140925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ac52e19fd---rezuduposa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/13264374610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/88605611009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarska-vyroba.cz/UserFiles/File/zizitufemozovadiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a0cb4d59c4---74089595832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/91185798522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/gimuwugagabujizodalatoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/filagidarexogadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98258031174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i65p0erdk96c7ipppgmmq7ajr2/42212479439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/89431865346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printrun.nl/userfiles/files/pukunumokizizivonafolebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/wijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149582693ec9---lorukaximizab.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_off0000b33f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB33F 10356 bytes
SHA-256: a6f427ed684d4ebdbc3006ecc572c7b334b78146da59cdef5802dd08bd88f6b1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e29b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE29B 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 884ee23903b76399d990380543f9411d431bc084f6fcf1e69949e41293bf5866