Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f2a663244f1cc28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:35:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2e7a62b85127a279523c7d32b1c2479d SHA-1: 6ecedbb34a5ba74644626b2f4b89a411eb2a1752 SHA-256: 8f2a663244f1cc28262ee6b339bc8d88da083b6dd06b973fb778104c55e44d0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to disposable hosting and potentially compromised CMS upload directories. The embedded URLs, such as 'smidgel.ru' and 'nuyewpilot.academy', are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bubble+spinner+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c7bcbdf8636e5f9b26d2713477d013/39032007291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graczeonline.pl/userfiles/file/64277874518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawana.tech/userfiles/file/34846855578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gk-eventus.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvevasilifapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/62270116441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/wedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/foturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24548550558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/7210998885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/fipedusakekikilarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6cc288de7---77967753352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trongtrucsolution.com/uploads/files/gabixonelerigowudukutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/60937335080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapsda.com/SapmaUserfiles/file/rarufanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/volosegizofimipipumupobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankajplast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7577175654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hefcom-hydraulics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopaperevasigewamodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/69222438446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/vufanutinus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95b0214694d240b3a24043e60b1a55a/jaliloxelexajifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.com/userfiles/file/wekama.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_off0000e26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26D 16428 bytes
SHA-256: a0a90a9e5427566d52a405e8f4feb431eb44cea4a65ae0e27d930ab5f1f6fb08
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE0 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 733a3f9081034e1feaad52a12c1aa4746e03ccc7023d2427e626b62168557571
font_02_sfnt_off00012438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12438 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1