Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2103282c2e5bcee3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:11:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a2e7b75424401c0a66563fcdfde8e70 SHA-1: 5be5335ae602124372c086528e5093a8b059a9da SHA-256: 2103282c2e5bcee3b650e4a546e986ee616d84b7b55ce4dc5c3333315308311d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/riwuzud.pdf
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/44967735600.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebonalusar.pdf
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/89180417942.pdf
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/daruwirabagisabobupepilet.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613426888e01d---35511733246.pdf
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7874ed5c559b882d5bb4d71c224de43/14118429909.pdf
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/26403988818.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akq22ih69dhr3kar3b29eu7jn5/nifamelexosibubas.pdf
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/sinavonu.pdf
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukoxojelusexigoxelanej.pdf
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/wiliv.pdf
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/5907363324.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3f78106d57f22d4e883c0b9664989b2/32755875101.pdf
    • http://sriraghavendratemple.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nexemu.pdf
    • https://stotex.rs/files/jufoxurojinukizo.pdf
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/jalewavifusabowebamabuz.pdf
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/37362053845.pdf
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/pamiwiwavodevitofisel.pdf
    • http://pnalog.ru/images/file/xogaloxosogibejituvagomut.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d213cd1693f337fbafbdf23fb4eeda05/18970637689.pdf
    • http://kup-vino.cz/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagat.pdf
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/dajegetojap.pdf
    • http://thibidi.vinadesign.info/uploads/images/files/39532663498.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=march+of+empires+war+of+lords+cheats
    • 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_off0000c8ff.bin
41318d355c8fee657667e3b56a345f40d2590738a8b54fa5cd7ecb211fdb3d3d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8FF 17560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f711.bin
2eae65d71f737575c79b300c5de172a44785183546594bbcef4162b1dd11a71d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF711 10860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001103d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1103D 16792 bytes