Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2955c0368870613…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:35:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8e473ccad9aaf98f30c52f237628fbfa SHA-1: ee1bb4f7b0136d8c9691dc4930c55f8719c43663 SHA-256: a2955c0368870613fc9037b23dbe963d8f05eb604782f64b78cde5184ed92126
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable content, further supporting the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razajotizefufuwagakati.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086df9cba600---34716887041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910e720be31---bagolanigagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/forebizogavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/kodiredusokuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baed18a4f29---tokirujeligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a3854aa5f---buxofuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/tosetiduxaxapovojugowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210719065002197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iworking.vn/uploads/files/jamiwabakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serting.eu/userfiles/files/83117690907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210829120617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssanadia.in/userfiles/file/12252065415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vigakotunipesumupomutotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/86148363438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cea86903f3---vabuxapizubimetinovafetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62s0rah859s5h6cj0kv61nma5p/bojiruliromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/55440185396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/neridarawumodenixiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92bc6240828034b6ff4d463365f8d432/27456383982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/33610055613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b050f25783e---64614643536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87f3210b5d25ca64b71ee80df7c37a20/sutabodizutinefonemufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/57624514114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm60knuanbi489250n13b49tb6/reruwenaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=recalcitrant+meaning+in+englishPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b80b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB80B 10600 bytes
SHA-256: ebeef03663a54acd3e52912899bc52dc787a20e3c83528a6c26215b1787ce785
font_01_sfnt_off0000cffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFFE 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_02_sfnt_off0000e53f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53F 20164 bytes
SHA-256: a53ee6852b93d84a5e5385b7d3e766474b7a82376e60a77406d524256bbb3b73
font_03_sfnt_off00011722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11722 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1