Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2503d82e1122d319…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 16:58:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d4918e1e0e7f205ed84e784e394a75e2 SHA-1: 3e2edf0b77369d970b53c5b341cf754ddb69bc61 SHA-256: 2503d82e1122d319b32442004b0e7135dcedc2f5c3e6ee6b61a83c8af1808208
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=circle+launcher+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://bladensburg.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/50926430020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/toval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9861927a8768ae05bf3bf56cd7639c5/36989080874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garajudodopidunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65797108002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-einheitsloks.de/medien/file/44696803447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/94350715337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/69650240183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanelect.com/userfiles/file/50608908887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f623b1750e---gamuvezilomubererubogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensquares.in/userfiles/file///wiwegewadojibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/tuninegajurowesujalew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopukowoponolomatajiwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/savafaredas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonmysliwskirys.pl/userfiles/file/pubomajujuvamigoseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75487716056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eef7d1e3f8---62550849541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b301b75d3e---98285867649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210907_230221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/jefikamomigojesawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5554105792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopinhome.com/ci/userfiles/files/36247812510.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_off0000dc5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5C 18256 bytes
SHA-256: 0bf16d80e521399e2068dec91602689873481a45fbacbdc9c119a5bfd50d00aa
font_01_sfnt_off00010be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE1 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 1882ab9539b519eb18da1dd74a0e0d27c82b0365d7c3b47d3cc0f4d3b493d8f8
font_02_sfnt_off00012361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12361 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1