Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a3d72d6a25470c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 06:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b620437da3cd619e052952ceb6197b77 SHA-1: 30c5f818df327f1e996ed518832e865ec59898e3 SHA-256: 2a3d72d6a25470c3cf7071919e98c4c9e2f26d3bba1d73ec28808e2b7b4aedbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that may embed JavaScript for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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=how+do+i+reset+my+panasonic+plasma+tv PDF link annotation
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c725c11d4f7---luweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/94278216388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/3758428055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f82970cb2---7661761759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5h1e362rtrhdq4bshnhd1g2l6/52278450842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/24356569832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egl3hp80p5e1f874ao9lqfokf0/xoxoxudisifuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dikdcvudc6gfh39cmel5nmahh2/27462702441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768cbac76c3---71185171264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c8bbeacf8d1b237531cf9d2bba90c98/44548178518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609938b3d3e4d---75808830610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xefawagiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/rifobaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/gedodesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/naravegadixewavodetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/sujegudazirajafunekiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cd97dac13---kukelimizoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbkadon7vjmr022bj8uhg1ru6e/jewumufelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc590ec2332---vixuruziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/40007316240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8780214484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/kewetidogoxuwukedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb263e0c2b---66902380304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/ketuwe.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_off000102d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D2 10932 bytes
SHA-256: ab09a5fc4123f216fc20d0d856c620c9069be704585dacb61434bf5f74100f17
font_01_sfnt_off00011c2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13440 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 4b0c5c467af8bf1cd5c37caaa0199839ee0a53912d968d9f92012205850d2b40