Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a8fb02b715afead…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:41:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fc76c749cd56a0f2c3bad513a22ec2ea SHA-1: cfee96b3b5eadeb054c070e0f69ba0409798cdd4 SHA-256: 2a8fb02b715afead47c478b34cbe55d40a445bb91e92562d245ed4d42da44a3e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings and numerous external URLs are strong indicators of a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=image+size+converter+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://natatourism.com/userfiles/files/rotarutinonaxilatef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/77994509768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb8a949615---25010946923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f35cdc61451ded031803bebbecca89/momosatafewifakimuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startbatteries.gr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2094818055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberryhomemade.com/userfiles/files/gopinaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/4148567445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signos.larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/zanivarawimukijulugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/64465403106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/93425249889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be51bfc9d05dfd7b96445a220facc8f0/64050256313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxavurewarowametiloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gomifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/nobejesaxizibesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/59813163530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/10718563190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/41798336616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336e99eef41---garibofofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/nupemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98955788308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejov.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://tattica.byespresso.com/app/webroot/files/upload/files/zorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/8765376808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/72991883627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/49275771778.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_off0000b7fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7FD 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 02b86375426e7dddb2c819912801be82e8cd3d90cdd8083fbff8db9ef5bc10ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000d15f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15F 15720 bytes
SHA-256: d6c823482b180f109471a5a87d488667ff3f3c43ec56dd0f3a39cefe157d20fa
font_02_sfnt_off0000f98a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1