Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2638bc9ec77b769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-24 23:01:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 03c38979ff1fcf7b1bb8d341984667b3 SHA-1: d7cf46abcfea181c14b2f3dc14fcce160397f627 SHA-256: d2638bc9ec77b769daad823c756e23672ff28fe403b046d870e18d35e9923189
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights this behavior, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to potentially malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+witcher+3+all+cards PDF link annotation
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/luneburapiwedateguguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609736b6a4c42---3728519868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/zogawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/nixijijogafinepomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raboxewivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/gunilinexisikamolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09d5bdfa243fca42659233f9ca6974f/86748019418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a324b1f13663cfdd5636592c71e4668a/towunuzezeliwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wasunivisogerore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00e4322927---34292414244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/28485966758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/zozumefule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/68170244432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/rujemegotefojumisobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/zurulukomirivoganizozufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/guvivopamivefujarevige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812088fc31f535e3f1442eb6752a5f88/12701907686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37b716ffe427b46ae9bd4d126e1745e5/nizoxokatibokogugiganajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611762942c18d---44698083005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt2tknn6dhtkoute0radpg517a/xikoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/lomenirodupopevufisomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20djdidqvaakfvq2o7g3l41g2/70201840681.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_off0000dd22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF534 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 2b722ad535b570fc88b401a100f3d033e00914a69c0f2eded58498131f07e7f7
font_02_sfnt_off0001214d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214D 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 01efd1a8499c48b626b59e84f58c0075ecba912ed58c1c71583836f279d67d95