Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2894ed9afb36c43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 04:12:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: aeb4a4c137ae1a41749d85d437ae0a63 SHA-1: 8684bb91049e93e3611f53bae74b8ff1bc27cf0e SHA-256: a2894ed9afb36c43e2ce4f5a1b530e0c957dbdb912edf401a42bb3c7180c4b68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and UTM parameters suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for wider reach.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/29523772060.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108212302019428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufuwobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/nudulazitodumiloviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/58717196894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2179254b50---27476045475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdfgiare.com/upload/files/tozakabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/tewupejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea9c32a822daff340c114e3e33199cbf/5927369375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/874713096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b2762a8b8106e89b88c676a9af117f/84976943815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinikoral.com/img/userfiles/files/xosovijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d16b233ae6---padedosele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/lufewurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livnica-metalurg.com/images/pages/file/tadute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f49b1eab6---10394174215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987f4fec5a8---1104109094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02c772eab0---9788591971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h217ejvfu66lr6krp17rkhjl3/dejokomopolasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b000333546b---papemarozopagusesaxaseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca5ca53bec---zuwanowopiwolijovali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/28029514786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+botanist%27s+daughter+book+club+questionsPDF 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_off0000e840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE840 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 48602538959ffc980e0bcac25c001917e7e539406e97ebef28354266d0daa63f
font_01_sfnt_off000101ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AD 16476 bytes
SHA-256: ea8364e8a9d945b408ccb9353ab31010d4d05bffa8321eebb325592f41cf80d9
font_02_sfnt_off00012c21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1