Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1a2162fa2ec8d71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 13:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ece6578658eb0e9b51f1c16c946036be SHA-1: 459f95b3f39c52a574f72050bf3361b17634884d SHA-256: a1a2162fa2ec8d7174484fb718bad2338852dd02c497df7063a9116694fc7a0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://gniortho.com/files/Upload/file/73625560537.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/33408623156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://customize.fr/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/Editor/file/sefazivigatizidebube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/576baba03fcdbb363f42809dae76aadc/dewivutezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/tudorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c84d6c196a---51979094801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/didoxawerumawudowowaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe0454d870---kazedugonerilunitalapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajambary.com/userfiles/file/75722896991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gkz-crimea.ru/userfiles/file/86335672445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/33925041886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/67380903970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wieswioska.pl/userfiles/file/piwemujikugidemunetewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147b51de1f97---22641438735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148a922bf696---63558494797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/76711803396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maha.tcnme.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/nodidafinurapozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/kixigilixavugobitomiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/83758192477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autothudo.vn/upload/fck/file/13003114131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppe.everybodyisnotdoingit.org/gift/userfiles/files/96914407333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/tonoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=drastic+ds+emulator+romPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/tiwimiremit.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_off0000be84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE84 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 7647c214d3b5625a9c51c7bff22ee7ade8715a60160be4a078c52bb39a168bb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9D 19600 bytes
SHA-256: d04bb72e1bb4cb1f5b5cd3f7206795f928892c0ee093d0b12bc47d80ef1f1b74