Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2629588356198fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:29:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6f2021b32ab49482e56eb43de4fec2ca SHA-1: 8ce2c0cfb58be0b8fa7109338fb4cd6641b95b82 SHA-256: d2629588356198facf5f7109a8a8366104d4831c58d55e6fd4334dfae8d5bd2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, including one pointing to a compromised CMS upload, strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86257229733.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/12120417655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topflexsports.com/uploads/diziwolonufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0966810001632307753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardena.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/dinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livewireeventz.com/userfiles/file/gamunavutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infosantiere.ro/userfiles/file/getarapumexiberexutipulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381163cfffc---zujobepupazupevox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/zibobisalopevegujomuwizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tatapopumedatapuwalikejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/vebonuvafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://squash-fitness.cz/userfiles/file/64341547131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73099983957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/serelukamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkjv.com/Images/Media/files/nijegigogixupimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb8638f5418402f4f4f512fe3dcefcd0/22719918490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bold-iot.com/uploads/files/202109070202093691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ingatlanfelugyelet.hu/uploads/file/kudirevevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cb168e2b0ea84d412a80c9d4e3bc912/25965183136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraiaser.nl/userfiles/file/xirujirajigogokapovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/72603431988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sitokerobafunagovibulevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=online+mooc+platformsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000de21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE21 18560 bytes
SHA-256: 9071fd3be03201606b76449357bd010677720b90126eccda008765b537e3d32c
font_01_sfnt_off00010eba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D1 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 5a39cf014eb65b12020543bbee3ef183676562e98e8633d2ce71580aafa70af1