Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2710f98882d8a9c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 01:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 946f9545db8d558ded73e15f1d926b3c SHA-1: 29fba3f1ba738a96d1b0622e322373399de64a57 SHA-256: 2710f98882d8a9c9652bbe8a5123ec2d34a63acf48a3c9eab45935691caf894b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to domains identified as compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/rejujemewegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents//files/girojigaxibutavupenobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///19318390789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/72158904017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/kevuvisilosusalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/xajamivolofogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarentcar.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210710_3CA5914DB9F84FA0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/5220766380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da224b0011574a026ca921e3fd372cea/42415278600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a49c687aed5ceb929862e373ddf57e57/dubigubirikadejenimopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/24262681257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/nolujejitasilimaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/rezewutesoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1521856c71f3068b85f77a319c451a29/gagijagini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b30fe052aa---14387961334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng4ka30rp17793pnvr15ba9qs3/43393770788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6152f0c5e003b8860743196d670960/mukoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23b6da637f---81810969857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810f5468f13---27443521861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da02296eebf---fufuxutiwajufifuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/2021052616220623497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/xiguxuzepodoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notrepanierbio.ch/userfiles/file/39156769371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ed2cdb3a2---pejuxapaxagedaximej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+a+row+in+excel+and+keep+formulasPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D2 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 249fdcec4860bb43b53ed809ae702711e39980606792b00a8ffa256e1f05396d
font_01_sfnt_off00012145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12145 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001395c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1395C 11152 bytes
SHA-256: c394eb22814abde9caf2a59c69cb885cd4b2aa71cc3a714a29bd16f2b8146f78