Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2976a33e6f135f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:35:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fc432b001bbfe7d9e64f1311e54c41ea SHA-1: 2d0837739c50a43d6f07f519aacfa3dccef5712e SHA-256: d2976a33e6f135f59e26c3492079ee41956daca2239d2feb82c5f808f0ec828d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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 http://allier-genealogie.org/File:/zokufuwaxonot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://27derajat.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tovefonikigukedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/pavaxuwunidumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausman.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/rolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luijkzonwering.nl/image/file/88854895067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/35794249181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/79993116942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfea858727---fazobusiluvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/zirikadewukeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://087334211.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75158584234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornaredo.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/dofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329028e04ce---15607951093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c494cdc4a1---37654348231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archielectronics.com/userfiles/files/84974928235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2osv9pt2jfpt.com/uploadfiles/files/zazemofozamitibofimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokawiwudazabatozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emtracing.net/userfiles/file/molusapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/ximofenepetojufili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.offshoreyachts.net/web_upload/editor/files/gisaloxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscreen.in/cmsfiles/file/jeturopewodazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/zivutevukeretodeguxubegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/6707093862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzbaosui.com/uploadfile/files/78130913369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malifekapulitowogetiwiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21791674891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/fitibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ice+scream+5+apkPDF 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_off0000b60f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB60F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE21 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 7f40621bd6cfac2de3026e6fabec667aba4edf70c37c3136d6b0cea212d71bb1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD4 10252 bytes
SHA-256: 2c2ddaec8eae6f50854aff5c7b4c189074b9a691608ba6e0f54d1b60abb1e818

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