Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a8fe33c30710272…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 22:22:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7f3c3f2095707b9650b764e3c0209a62 SHA-1: 6671c23d5c7890efc84dffadb9061f94836b3366 SHA-256: 2a8fe33c307102725c1f3108b48145b9ec1f6ae2bc28cc74c28aad4a40ee97b8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, many of which are compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://dacsanmyhuongbeti.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/misizuvubipenezejuxipebu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1185a59400---rabafodisuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe878c0cd93---63361711677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64279844942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161035a62f2b4a---dukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l55icldk0h264lvienusiv781i/pedimititenenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11e4132f92bc11cc092ff56c546acf5d/58250810724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380f75f82cc52d42a091f0077977b3d8/93732847388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/rodusolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a232ceb8e82e065c8611f8e764ab0bc5/gubefebikotovukedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/71807060137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/visudalewusufekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/86256972223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/45403597436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/54917140609651797e7ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec2a734504---divagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ac75a90f2b1a0fd78463758a0ae8d9/78496170770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/11014393699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/29662552652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510fccf2301efdbb98bd021492fbbd14/nikowoxatixezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8b6249a87---wosukuris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7c997d0cc2e1b010597a2d937b56356/remefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=twelfth+night+objective+questions+and+answers+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_off0000eec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC4 11532 bytes
SHA-256: 09a4655fa9e8e60ec9f26dc1b685ca38cd203ceb2b5d573caf3a1956feaf5684
font_01_sfnt_off0001095b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095B 17288 bytes
SHA-256: a7484ea1a9f532c5f894cb7f5a99e6b1be466d11f53071b9126144453c3854d6
font_02_sfnt_off000136ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1