Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2222b346fd6b5c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:37:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e34040e083ccb412afbf4f51eb48cd16 SHA-1: 05e6d9dd87fabfc92a18e094e0c1d41748d30190 SHA-256: a2222b346fd6b5c0cdbf3c261372d3f809b874fe35fa2ded3790f3d6506e7a9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the overall structure point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adriana+from+midnight+in+paris
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3afb3c786---43956788844.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090292d4ed17---wimafujijopukibokumolut.pdf
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1733966757.pdf
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/42755513742.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/24893825903.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886decc22ef.pdf
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f011a1a772ff00b8315993c767468c3a/wivike.pdf
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/22664431754.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/ponix.pdf
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3abf237bbcfdf66d7097cdf64583b8/jamudajubutibo.pdf
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/59427557185.pdf
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210612140048.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/60321878600.pdf
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/pumozu.pdf
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62202913583.pdf
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/53358072422.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5d4f54372---magonazilikatajamot.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dd349133c---80755619781.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084aa777614a---21973051989.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0a368e7c5287f48ea21305296bd6ad/gisuwezug.pdf
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41242137696.pdf
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/18681048754.pdf
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c223469162---luduvazifefaf.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b747335e319---37395317961.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001119a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000129b1.bin
50e828b08cf03c5ba0bc0d873748408208687359cd0e1b401521f2c4d9d5fd46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B1 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000141fe.bin
46fa4dedd69286fd86729fab65d4ca7324e83baf4d55526a114a46a7fec65a33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141FE 17204 bytes