Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2851ea87daa7bcfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-18 11:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8e150e184e86b5d7eaee501d259f8ab7 SHA-1: 1a46737a1f7c5ed7645e0b2ebfc40125ee5b354c SHA-256: 2851ea87daa7bcfb741272348695510e2d3ea66a102b18de39454f99aaa2da6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of 'spider man apk download' in the document body and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading potentially harmful files. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2daec08688580392d3a9580a00dbba/13427488458.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/ruzukaluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78dcd45e94fef2c3a3a4fdb1fc170439/xesube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fa4c1e350---nalirumaxiwitaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543551e91b9078da8d193b521fd66b9e/renima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9k6fk7r2vb51tn9eaea91dmpb/50842392892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1adfbff87c069b9cb632c1501261f62/nadugebawajilevuxudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2053e7cca0b0fb0832f782a89f4a7a98/gazerefexanokurufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/67908804087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a694b99beac---4011901167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/68820390793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7532061146eb660d9a8201123306e8a/neloxivomujofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4973869f2318eaae8cd9ef3f0eeaba18/matopivokivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97092d2b9f---nositujofelewixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090550069b7c---6422017303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+apk+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/98499090066.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB33 2880 bytes
SHA-256: 619a44e8b5c2a2d3fc0e18259d8022938ad4f8b30552901bc68dc41c3d0f2ef0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE571 5188 bytes
SHA-256: a3900c06aa7b5b87dde835455999cd9020e4925b76976613c6f71ef99824e529
font_02_sfnt_off0000f710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF710 11404 bytes
SHA-256: afdd07b9032c8635c31746c968091ceb225775dc7508b29cda6adf5ec1639f6d