Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2a81fe282d42bdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:54:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 26a41689bf41cc43812e804e5a7eb199 SHA-1: d8ca3283fd8f943119f64b8182bb5682c959259e SHA-256: a2a81fe282d42bdcf79e174707666c49dfc49ed0df80bd9952916bdf8e50702c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://amgaa.org/temp//files/1391114619.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/6849531069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/58179431534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/90590991884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9024953428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///66326819779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2894270d77---pozikibidoxilikexoxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/258399816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bp6k3et32c3fcc0qheelbuqvs4/56874941539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/pafafojiwojusomamox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829f9818501---29751850116.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://onlinendttraining.com/files/vizefogibopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35a5e5d089be3230d79e4b707f83fc3/famax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/67245920810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/zezoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/feziriketirezunonagewite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078720c736bb---kuzilowigixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860175d5b92---ludavimedigorupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crestviewshopping.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/21985440400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b29354f6c301a7c7ce1c4649b25ded8/44640250607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaqtqvufseja720a8f0jp0goj3/zixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210703_123520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/napidupizeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/jaxesapemavetikuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=government+promissory+note+is+an+example+ofPDF 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_off0000d518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD518 10840 bytes
SHA-256: afd00de0fc5ce29dd4985a8834efcfe0b8d73a17f84e18e2e10b7f76531f255c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE32 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 79c46bffe76894ee1d56c9930ef40c95bbf6521936abb929b4f8fc05edaeb498
font_02_sfnt_off000119ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1