Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2b589c0700bf735…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:49:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 36302acd154fcc6f33c2079eccd08e72 SHA-1: f3b5f04e7a88e8232bc06604cf94f5f7ca21cc48 SHA-256: f2b589c0700bf735f271db491a357a4318ec00a09f6bef01b9055bfc30ded45c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of link farms and compromised upload directories suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=area+and+perimeter+of+rectangles+worksheets
    • http://ibnuaffan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39895102037.pdf
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/detezenubukoxumuji.pdf
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9824ab377---38391188496.pdf
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/25779542070.pdf
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/30126171708.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860a70e2d89---36115924417.pdf
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fufadasuxape.pdf
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/girufiwawepulexilolewis.pdf
    • https://transport.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisawemupuzow.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111c4ca8d230---46380149956.pdf
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a4ad162cf5ff136d7e5fe605eea7b6/lufitonorepawidiz.pdf
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/70517306711.pdf
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtrimq1a3or2vh3rd4m43mnif7/13997962313.pdf
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/kovesivale.pdf
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a39f7def7219a6f72aa0e0c5add24ee/31559041384.pdf
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa23c6090---mufadisizevamibukemomerux.pdf
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/zifisi.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a947796e9fe---kekemokumo.pdf
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f6797dec5---58635533592.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fa98dbe63---66931980577.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084919fedab5---34088469980.pdf
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/74107821462.pdf
    • 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_off0000c6f2.bin
e260ad84293c3e2652754a4378d6fe90632bdaaecf95e109a1ea3a76ca7995b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F2 11224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0e4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8f6.bin
bfcba7c3fabb21f72b4550a8412dcbe47e1d381b63ebfc05b8a2ebcc9c8be686
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8F6 17548 bytes