Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a83fbb86fd493e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 04:45:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c717463eb8433b6b7c28c4896a9a85ef SHA-1: 280cc0731e33f1c49b4a25d5ee22355564977a91 SHA-256: 2a83fbb86fd493e039253d0ef56e52a761fe5d4f26ab39d62abb3b1981ae541b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=non+verbal+reasoning+questions+answers+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/wujezitarolivote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/661894846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbbc8c64f1---69507236549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/89974068957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/vigedifofufarinarivixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/53732482077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f2f298c51e6de1c8a446f01dcaebc7/18540720439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9622bd425---84861261070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a354cc2gtqp8njhehpkaitdnq/74165668988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5e35dfaa9cbf059eddc86d03e29f7bd/19556319152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/gatalaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beruanglucu.com/contents//files/kapudupujefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db74c009da8---86404238675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/wajikojisazenenerowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/dipizumelemate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/19390743713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0tu887b5lr57605p2qa36r306/1025053542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/51849724708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pixozezorudikepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/watazazivoxaduxukeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/xigidevokaxuxowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ov57sa47ko50pbrnq09p33dik2/53287883081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713c07f16d2---11877017347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afeda625fa9---saboget.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_off00011172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11172 17576 bytes
SHA-256: adaae1953035fe81e43de03170b028d517c100da3b336d901d38604c34d405af
font_01_sfnt_off00013fae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000157c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157C5 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 109bf8fd008005d0b3f18ebb84dfd2b27c142a663b788adf744bc8ce892bb556