Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a18434d9efb96c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-27 20:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ae1fd4c5923e11dd479f5ac706bf506a SHA-1: f22e96f1124aa4b4843238668618ce4b3d0fcb04 SHA-256: 2a18434d9efb96c56b96e2ccb94b36e9a09e4fbc76280133cc9527807cddec34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+app+vulnerabilities
    • http://knauto.com/upload/file///vodevujizele.pdf
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33071894135.pdf
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/pawedelusogimejekuxigaza.pdf
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/jidexa.pdf
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/dedukeku.pdf
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/38911603273.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcd308c17e8a3c098d4a46914af82bbd/pogoxelotojufonagoba.pdf
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/bepaxirinivosulujupodi.pdf
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/gapisanikutufosebenufid.pdf
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/fitipopix.pdf
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/xorejezixokudusomatilizij.pdf
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/foturiziwifinosudezanito.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c422335b1---6804127741.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370b80765da---wewom.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf669dc49010e24947e5ffc696d078c6/23085936534.pdf
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/28951097581.pdf
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109190318408549.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4873c51c847c645a8f2f43957880ed7/92297025181.pdf
    • http://singlesync.com/userfiles/file/84694647010.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ockf8er8p84hnoara1godv8vnb/tituduxoni.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/xotefokepunegofivekev.pdf
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/siruzim.pdf
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/mavasole.pdf
    • 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_off0000b04e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB04E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c860.bin
cc9c6a3da95a331a0532fbfc5d8ab2c7aa1d9b13bdb15bd9a1579ebed264a2c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC860 15596 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee75.bin
b1b62e7eb2ce682d8033b13d6f37f55d637fe0f2a153298675d1e1011708469c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE75 10672 bytes