Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a8ebf9e3182776e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:29:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 47eb8a0add60d1138d2aa662f0c55552 SHA-1: c0e527b22a049cf09ffdf2d4827e23a1cbf7e0a6 SHA-256: 2a8ebf9e3182776ec337aa755026a525c84ffa135b982ea3b96b991c46eb53d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are flagged as part of a link farm on potentially compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://parikshitconstruction.com/uploads/jefawobusoxejunal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/39730313038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210904104937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/murowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bujexuribibupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/34680100982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/rerekowepunexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmakonnect.org/DrumiBhatt/karmakonnect.org/Final/ckeditorimage/files/zidamilaxodavutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/22081046555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8kh2cg6ob30scto2qnofr3cgc/10997925860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valesefebosutuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stnicholasway.com/userfiles/file/97756509029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///53454178399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ylwlgwadmin.ylwl.cn/upload/files/jetaxawivafovibijafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qatarsecurityservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/ginipanatexapopowevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/nimejexetirodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/lubalebediki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2nh464fm561qgr1jfqth23daa/veziwagezakasafewetafev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/96176816772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0b0f74a2b9a548a0d383c51e465fcd/xexevixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347b15c841f---jeduzesiwewujizuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/99177860748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c2ddf902cc0cb83958f07daf051041e/1749698186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/data/editor/file/41906537502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=irregular+singular+and+plural+nouns+exercises+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00011d11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D11 19764 bytes
SHA-256: b7b25a80a338a4c0209df3733530557817c57283f73bd767003b3f3d81fb5066
font_01_sfnt_off00014ff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FF4 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 8012572f19fe76c2ee7037e56974e1a5e45e9859887d577c607c220ea736225b
font_02_sfnt_off000168dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1