Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a86816f4092d3c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:18:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9a052ebd15bd8b9ff48ac11dd091d148 SHA-1: 91b0d5bf6862e441847f836e9029d3fa036fe3be SHA-256: 2a86816f4092d3c8085b1da7d384a25de946868a1b963cdc3f2172bf31c64042
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. Several URLs point to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=make+game+with+python+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/toxomagarotawomupegude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607224247781c---zajas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed5efcffdc8761c42d832826004c939/wozirilurexidofede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbca4a05510---40553140272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k4lvahnur74l63igj9d8jresq/fiwetowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e03f83bc872d1485f2593b26cfd8530e/vufarojorusadonasigupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/50827297311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/59378671218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/lewelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210718192828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/zofilonoxipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zezexozadaluredimizota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/xagulamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882bee3563e---kalisubowiwakepapefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/88838955096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/84993477829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7726da1a340c484de64da4fc7929841f/redoxanutafidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0km4ji0t3u9q3433ud9sr37j/tadozunokigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/pujejelotagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krikrik.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/pigifavuvaguvibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/8576243371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ded37b1c01---gotavufewakipapedepuwuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcda927c842---24184534520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zinidafasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/tumokora.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_off00010a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000122ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122AB 10916 bytes
SHA-256: a1554851f7dafdd2ae6452a9c76a6ece34c146f83ca8a854328f08e25b8deca7
font_02_sfnt_off00013b9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B9B 17736 bytes
SHA-256: f36df76fd87e9cfe4eab551d6b623a34ab35003e437345745d29f2da5184493e