Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af702ae3e39bfa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a5670fec97b69ed2cd75b7ddb49c31c1 SHA-1: 9788cbad1b1ce7c2f08fbfb94954133af2a4be2a SHA-256: 2af702ae3e39bfa30cfd4d517fd0800bf704ac7bbb9e5f1b15456c8652980d31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hard+disk+drive+technology+reading+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d391d17da59b6b71a838b09450193e8e/45450720380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9efdbdd52---43306481253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/48365885151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f63cd7d22---radavakexasodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8b435f3c9---66629104901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/kolixiwejebugaxinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3e08a1e8d0687a2fb0c7a2317c4928/fagobefaresavodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e08bdb7b6542ada485b18c436075131/23650326578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adrok97a35fv37ktcjs71plrqu/nibefuvitavuvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44339675373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imt4p11a2733vbf0lpi6qm9ice/demojowevugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/66820732464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/lidirijifeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/52139974453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098267c92b99---namogofulegukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/jonimemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/mududusarilola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemwishrs.com/ckfinder/stones/files/15543526007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/5515298926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbkm2a3j5mi6ocf2hl9uqtmc2e/wetenidaranenuxolajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/45666681128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/biresugogimuvekalajedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e30c4a43e---jakinoluzuzelatufojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0e8b34d5d---45369083040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/78520768356.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_off00010500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10500 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D17 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 4e540c98f10190970d3f86bdc554dac7f432be859b371b2a295d7b9a75aeb571
font_02_sfnt_off00013666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13666 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 5ff641317559d2fa17f0f5013573de3f9a725e440084d0b189ae7d504c304667