PDF malware analysis — malicious · a2b228ae2f817401

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:50:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05

MD5: 8de581f583ef152d2a14a5ec8ae1d079 SHA-1: f9ffe999f5f70aa8decdf25ff9bdd27be74318b1 SHA-256: a2b228ae2f81740174f24cb7886a3c968607eef765e8b714980efc103c2d1645

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepisop.pdf In PDF document text
- https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be771310ebd---zedurosifuwura.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6193bbef4d18aaabd10fe3271cea367c/80321182990.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/57942555395.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6hfreh2ek1kgo2r2bspkvkae0/zidirorubuxolujav.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/widovajagu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/zalejidofikuratunaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/77530547892.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/rasulotenuroduvovize.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajubawamu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://keacg.com/upload/files/tedafunobamiravupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c29f3b0cffca56aca7c62b5297ae7d/jopuvogijomes.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc363b18867---dapiwadenage.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gruppocinofilomarsalese.com/userfiles/files/sozagujipelunotezijoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/36805921039.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1574f4807e8957815bc7f76e413d820/dobefulak.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed20b530fa---pusasavijusenu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/tomogazutapuzenekegopuger.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/58189648832.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/pisowelonatijopupetigima.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804fbbc5375---50022202017.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lizatepefasonajeluwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210522124347.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210523142202.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5e156e05b7658d95c1312f24ccf3508/golofadigavasag.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eddbb3d8560af8e7e3edba5067396d42/4831209408.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=plotting+points+to+make+a+christmas+picture+worksheetPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000eb26.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB26	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_01_sfnt_off0001033d.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033D	11100 bytes
SHA-256: `df557b28d16c960c68defb9808cc6794a146f03d44828802cc0da72615a87ae0`
`font_02_sfnt_off00011d03.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D03	19368 bytes
SHA-256: `8d03b61c550b6a972e1d7918a8e20680ccdbde56a982107c183aaf6bb721b351`

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