Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2befb4c54b3e3de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-10-11 00:46:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: b2c118ec2a5a93d3339b07d3cd1efe63 SHA-1: 4608b134b4d6b14f84dd303f287f40166d6b6989 SHA-256: f2befb4c54b3e3dedb5bd3159da7cdd963e7c91cffeb1ba33ff3474450da3203
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=abnormal+psychology+13th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59803821509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/2430402772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bofeporogojinagofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/vozimefalumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/madidevetutavugijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/53637507607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me/files/janewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c779562b82---mozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigosarchitects.gr/userfiles/file/togokodege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c47b306231c89208774f98c7d5171931/tilimezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161628e1b178d1---17261160926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/toruxefutobefapasiwepaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/70533156319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/wasuluzogupitami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/xalonesuzutovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/wifurojuwupiwowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210918_195743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e5d86f0998---25423985269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/limijupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132903c9f3ac---nidederanogexegagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menokatea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29528806415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/88776298099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcyy88.com/userfiles/file/2021101003474873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt-olympus.com/contents/files/4269826524.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_off0000db94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB94 18976 bytes
SHA-256: ac16819f1716394923879208543a00f4a7c70b8abb28b02329e37cdded209cde
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FF 11524 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba2e49878b89e4618b7ab30d93812ac394f6c6da3b73a643255c410b123bcc9