Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2ad6be269240f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:08:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 36cc87cbd63a640ccf7d29099a0cdcf7 SHA-1: 2d2747982806202c3dbba6277c8a1d3117b40a87 SHA-256: f2ad6be269240f90b5ebd6a047f50d679d9803a5560a2a20c823b09eecbfc2d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several URLs point to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c404d0e911---72885376701.pdf
    • http://www.mab-solutions.fr/upload/file/vorobekujelaroramumovo.pdf
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/mabunizowuxat.pdf
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/7113909854.pdf
    • http://nuocmambason.com/upload/fckimagesfile/d7227e23d42d083cb12fffdc77168f47.pdf
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/zuvofa.pdf
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/lezisev.pdf
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93819405898.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363dd19c38d---30527759628.pdf
    • http://canyonmeadows.org/userimages/vexutinadalenad.pdf
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipifu.pdf
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/tewuwerixoxidapelawa.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/57663847590.pdf
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/52ac8f.pdf
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/rimupebodusilufizu.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386bd218b53---32656999766.pdf
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/saxulo.pdf
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/15873943148.pdf
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/91117450401.pdf
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/23773203846.pdf
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/neposidivabumib.pdf
    • http://qualityspices.in/ckuploads/files/31165497146.pdf
    • http://x-mobio.com/upload/files/35821709106.pdf
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/fixed.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e94b6abd3---nijedejorodaledopeg.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f35bd47717---43870597167.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=explanation+text+features+ks2
    • 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_off0000d7be.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd5.bin
41db51e8fccf77f9bb2c8a3bea6a9edb1cf25f3f06a2ee7af531afbc04ab8354
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD5 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108bf.bin
e618ef1a1d20ff165ab26ad4a36b33d90717ddcc257cf12cf67cde38230aaaee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BF 17540 bytes