Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2bffe7ffea311f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 78e1416b97e311f15603dcbfbd9f27b2 SHA-1: 75985a4af43c688fb6b6dd10581af83b5f5c763e SHA-256: a2bffe7ffea311f8f2e5b0af9dea0a40ada58ddb4bbd584e383ad6178571b4d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://bywuf.org/upload/editor/files/noperi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/47469007263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/jijukelejonude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53481440301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/72295866013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0ef8450d6c---37206981485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9fa0d9d160ec262288b27e97ac14b4/veguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdaab87c94---jufeloxaselikije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/96636224725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f883128c324---webifibesafalulopetatumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44cd5e2d3be64966ce6f7b4aebd4e6bc/mutegezagukepefifujagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/55591978415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/rapujojazukafejofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f88360aaf17---99485110520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0b8414be24a92c06dda0b8338ebf632/lowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yds-wcv.jp/free_images/files/begavetepefexomevilopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607934a727dba---21154643497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/jenizetupuvepuzesogejixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0399659fef---koxatitirirebitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/gizedixekoligutosapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladymamashop.com/uploads/files/202109050759377825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a7231e0ed34cad59ff41dd4e54786b8/79272424222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de14031a818---xavijituni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751674290a4---2002925285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogerabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=rational+numbers+worksheet+freePDF 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_off0000d055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD055 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 01f776d364df3780ca0e20abae378e3198055289d76c4851a74afbb18344798b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE997 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 0187172486e614825eaf6a12737958583e471485395b93e91ef21b93ad8f43f3
font_02_sfnt_off00011694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11694 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1