Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fa72020b74e9ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ca30eb8c57a765c2bae5b956d9269b17 SHA-1: 5fa4964c9919e2d0eb986eb12c6f938e21d29588 SHA-256: 2fa72020b74e9ab027e81ad229f289f83d20f4d956b724ca61ab60de6080e799
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URI heuristics and a link farm pattern further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajupe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents/files/fiduwusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/24470335932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/lajilekidatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/87025436998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210913101225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32559970476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7445955532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a07d0bdb0ec7a68e7dfa1fbc93f438a/nokuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ab4674ceaefb817f33209ef50d6ec6/varubuvegurogutovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138174341311---forabafitunodutedami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/21063487633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polaria.cz/images/file/dolobalivanamufaxedepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eea781c6f8---xujaxipibuzokusigamomanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltdb.com/UserFiles/files/9558033505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/19818402652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abakus-routing.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gepajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/92606350878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///rupapidutalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/notomodizarusobapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210921052110906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cross-winds.in/upload/contents/images/images/80888115134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/luvozekesinozufavitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/93963267858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/ludapipajazufalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=touchcric+app+apkPDF 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_off0000e505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE505 10080 bytes
SHA-256: ce4c9c647684a063208501b2cbe3568dc6519d7372147ef8a0a2e777c72c3196
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB93 18932 bytes
SHA-256: f6e494ecbd013ab3f20601696d2085d53282faba1ef06890a27f070ac4502b6e
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1