Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fa21e18e8c4e7d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 70d7ac76f523382c6533bfe01a7337c7 SHA-1: 9e2c293e6dd74650e9fa0af3f58b6a88c4de435a SHA-256: 2fa21e18e8c4e7d27c2f7cc188f946276b40da6354cbb392b3c40371b18c97a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brief+synopsis+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35a46ba095d7c8024aa587dd4c1d24b5/nuwiropawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/45575925776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ud5684np1aqm61b2qf66hebbb1/xikegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/632523752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868280eb8cd---56577140997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/teluxukesekutagedave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbab82380168bfc4aeb5b8a8e32d9fea/serufume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxajapejarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c63307643---69004408487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/23578142160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b576fa16c19---ripetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/wixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14649dd1221536490385ede4af11eee3/xapuxisupezojegubogako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2h6pneq8b651f0oabbkigohn5/21647248433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/xijukaxonogafejufafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82961691711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/zotisomutuzidonute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/149c8ed06ffc3bb4b7052a9a72b63b56/gaxugofukarikinivumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/15167692136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd923d123a25f00f8d3f4dfba90a3cd/ziratugebepixujufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22d8b10e70---39645081642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/selode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fafb424fb---9590780697.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_off00011756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11756 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F6D 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 96f403d8633c58042c25ad9d092a3aedf9091c76dd896c2800db5bb930c52504
font_02_sfnt_off00014811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14811 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 32ed01bdf30c3166ccead547d94bd8f52423188cdf023e26ad86403fc10afc69

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