Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a2cd29879b7e885…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:27:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 85735eb9c71b1b38ac855d39e38a2cf4 SHA-1: 5f06d3af6c4af7da2e8379fe4b4bd4662ffd4e81 SHA-256: 9a2cd29879b7e885ad9d2a234c16c2aa1dad42980018c7ff1395ce9e80b7589b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to disposable hosting, a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. Heuristics indicate a link farm designed to trick users into downloading files, with one URL specifically mentioning 'people playground apk'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=people+playground+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/nupuzidususiririxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/73977233811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/gipazudinapososegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/4764147442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/datozixosobatatadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sage-chem.com/image/files/20210918_041638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/36701503687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e07ba5280a---28091500258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/xixozaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazuvevujimatenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eafc40f5e8---55902395117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopphutungmayphat.com/upload/img/files/80588489108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///49131185489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a492255dc1---90562124330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kccegis.com/upfiles/content/file/20210920180657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12f2fae7a692aabfded326238980f94/65501105959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/99897424373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/62424078194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/78331135976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nenagararowatuzebeworato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarushimukhwas.idealviews.com/userfiles/files/33645776731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/42048449572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifujitaxudorenevasubalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aletihad-group.com/userfiles/files/91707299709.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_off0000e85d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85D 21424 bytes
SHA-256: 79e779e0fe0e445c7863a9ff8dbbb6d7266bf65e5cdcf840b3e32ab87e1e51b9
font_01_sfnt_off00011f40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F40 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 1c6d904511c0100ab44431d773096b8dbf1e91bbc05bafe6afb9c2bcc3a366d7
font_02_sfnt_off0001371c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1371C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1