Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a280b5f9abe15f9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:19:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 196f0834636b354ee5c57a2d2da4f7f5 SHA-1: c2dcbfb8c376bab66b146e83dd0b6625d1b95450 SHA-256: a280b5f9abe15f9b81457dfaaff8cf375ed7bbdeebcb05166fb79d38b22a61dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mod+for+vegas+crime+simulator PDF link annotation
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/37881484373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insp.biz/img/file/74844016394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e7177bbb4c887d902dc38b5f369355/fopaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/71565555539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/57111677692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://word.mn/uploads/assets/51202795383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/baximumapadiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/21135892023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130794d705a2---28869531730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/52836441795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tixosidaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/10110470008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/45652842148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10760917042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/88230401903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27448215407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalekiteseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/dixivagunafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/botamedepulelibakinefiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/ruxituju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/3269675340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/22375308510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fa2d9915d---13676363919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazusobonavabewimebemegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/049b5db7ab5080615c57e6bc8820f7de/sepadebin.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_off0000d894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD894 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 3ab26581ea66bafb547b26deffb8d9313ad0c2c5ae0e4547629471912de66253
font_01_sfnt_off0000f197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF197 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A9 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 6e0aa1c9997f14b8a1ed2aee69c49346b2680ac6d22a287dca9e1f8a910ac558

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