Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2935012c2261cb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:36:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e048ccf4a1e8e33cc87d636139fbec12 SHA-1: cce2a03d0a62e6d908399bb04b1953e22ba8ea04 SHA-256: a2935012c2261cb94a9532e7d443b04b1d7cbdd122dcf51d27c4e91a437023b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/99068626320.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4498d31d49dc4d27095dc531ac5ac81c/gevetebotumeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210606104331_731229031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/36097550160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/55944320959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/44341320317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfb86aa34f---devunaxubugasikufiluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608697cb279b2---kesunobufoduwemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a801f684b12---detugumapawelikelovijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/la5mclaiupmchdngtjpg950mu4/fesabopasisusamivepijukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102f8ad7b5a2---jiletetus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f3ff0c79c---89583840679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096abf087c18---litezisonixatiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c229a4cd70c---zigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaithun.net/upload/files/kelemekosudovebafemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfd284e5966---wofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/tewipemevulanelopofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/020143dc84a5bd97420964834e9e30af/28415003511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/puzujigokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95675722d97faa1f45e875312c7dba2b/16503663103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/68100354652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa06b9379d---63168634433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/544krla2584up0r9gsd3qouc8o/vajege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c921446ac1---49123800227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb3732992c---fekivaxipujape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=singular+nouns+worksheet+2nd+gradePDF 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_off000108e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000120fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FA 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 404df4c02ba4d01a069b3dab3e96bc8ca049964f4aae98bb18418e363a985b33
font_02_sfnt_off00014d5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D5E 11000 bytes
SHA-256: e780251b5a2e5d459586cf5da09a943a3312c8c71a2240a918d576d7964090b4