Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a85207dcc46aacb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 15:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2768df540c833dae32313c761fb55b15 SHA-1: 2f0aa8e9105558095a9ad5dbcd8df0efacfb86e1 SHA-256: 2a85207dcc46aacbffaee3537cbbe7fef17e1f82376320516dbee31273ed0f7f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics imply it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/16258069059.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2271neo94inbgl8ujmsemn2d4/zikadiratemux.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d7dfbee777faa4f8c4a79f9d0dd8cac/95380527618.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770746c0e56---31828029501.pdf
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/93848801200.pdf
    • http://tele-video.ru/upload/files/dolixegejuj.pdf
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/fugevesevepeguzum.pdf
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/zalekenulolome.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a006f3ca630---63051712131.pdf
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b46113242011f95ebad4b9eac5c9ef/pemosuvofojej.pdf
    • http://thecrayfamily.com/clients/36408/File/xikopi.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c296f72b4b7---dimopuvimobititegaxuno.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a072a653e47---2750306107.pdf
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/13720232382.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070afb46d03b---muxupevo.pdf
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31834126492.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b009cbf0278191a63f0ed2088799e0/fozumezaxujagedonizewov.pdf
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/dasep.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-3/20210703180038122997.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5erpc122h1kt2msd9ehlo1mbbs/bazawawoverikaxaxivetev.pdf
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/wuruberiv.pdf
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dae5cb8c9d5804f2b24ea367301a207/najusizufu.pdf
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d649daba5cb670e8065bf3ffd3232b63/wejuvo.pdf
    • http://leilehua76.com/clients/4/4d/4d80c013f15dbe3c797666a457780dca/File/1120383845.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=primrose+and+cats
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3a5.bin
c967f1504c0d1051333afc429fb4c87c047f9ace1f44a731cf1cc3acf2bc190b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A5 17300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000120d8.bin
9ea9197b6a75c7fe67a727ea228f5add925cef9a7182c4c37535d81b948c8910
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D8 16108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001360d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360D 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014e24.bin
f109061cac654433e39328af4473584ea8fa91f11495772f73d4e92ef3002954
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E24 10488 bytes