Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2428a5b85f7f32d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:11:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1be37bf600472cb479dcae21849a84eb SHA-1: ad4ff324bbdc3a5693ff00bfb769f2ff3b7c5dc3 SHA-256: a2428a5b85f7f32d67c6dd35ab3819b239c104299e82959fe87f97e42e680fbd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or social engineering pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e07a0a0afb---nufitutoxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/garuwojivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/fasoxuravudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/3646922841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongin.humenia.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210905040737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/43919663458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903032241929186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybyblos.com/userfiles/file/ruwukumefalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/41223225662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jegimivatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52fac6124fd258b03a06847ad080e05a/jafupagazavodaxelerel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137346f5a1b6---61002343868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/pukopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/98088208423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303b378b3ee---musugumefomepaniwojinesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613154b458684---wojazasowivimazatarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99345617540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amunt.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenawakezeloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f60478d0e3---korarobarikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakoplus.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovularuvomanabibobedaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906172805588842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/nakaxafedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/mavumuxisikotudorowegev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=perfect+auto+liker+instagramPDF 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_off0000d747.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD747 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5E 10872 bytes
SHA-256: ae3b0e1714c497db5c5998f0711ac12171c9a937e6dd4242658b1188dd0c98f7
font_02_sfnt_off00010881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10881 17692 bytes
SHA-256: c5f052b3b4d8df4b3705a4493f5917833b770f1ae316cb1b47458e20b59ccf82