Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2011a014e2820a8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-10-15 15:01:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 396a2a207c2dfcc24df904ed40e4b1c4 SHA-1: 2de6353565ffc57ee5e19f764434e0dfee7d9956 SHA-256: 2011a014e2820a8bc19ce67319a38cb1eabf32e50acacd3de77600839e435194
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=short+and+long+vowels+for+kids PDF link annotation
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/58724601627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/diwaxodepowosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147d75ff1a73---56600899072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscconsulting.com/userfiles/file/nimuporobobovuruzomozexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/23467244518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/golosemunapolazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15c884f09f4c5091fc71eca4bbe91d99/besajefofefujidiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/niladodipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109010248544796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diskacme.dk/images/upload/file/3410832610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greengenome.in/admin/userfiles/file/20499114756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/27670148445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67823889907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901140627583042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153bec743120---zepadiroxitopokotazotupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/ponatukuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/58404041750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/wugakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://om-ar.com/userfiles/file/nukijolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/tunedaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/66048007057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4961411bef2330dc6ddc5b0c8dc6297e/rusexukevoturobojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161692548724c1---sululetojemawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-business.ru/uploads/file/92975196745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40300594976.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_off0000dd74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD74 17032 bytes
SHA-256: f41300af085cb8c55785a24350634b4d54de322df1ec3c715a966bd019d61666
font_01_sfnt_off0001094e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12165 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 2bc5f3a0e830784da6fbfa793b9c1b701f554698cbeabfc8896b71a3f3f0b2bf