Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c11002ce0f6026…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:19:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 54100dedafc87cedb4e8b7523ddd1fe5 SHA-1: 726738c3b9ea07a48ab40647e90612056f71a90f SHA-256: a2c11002ce0f6026e84c8a1e3c5ebd5d8a5cdd4921b48bc291cc8d581e97ac91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely involving spearphishing attachments as the initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=god+with+man PDF link annotation
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ece3ab2a2---derusutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a4a1cb0ac---65167994643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3flluhsemqrqkguiqmqbdoui2h/9029226776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/lubidan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/82930094957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/tuxewafipopudewonulesupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/vipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/kibufomovoluwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/bijasuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073953329e47---13719679773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a19326d7d1---bupinakaxozeloluxosojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b288a0ffa---lovunizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m950s11ro4qfaal19tpdp6nso5/99881068132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79f5c9ffce---lazivika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc633676c67b8ffd49b441ae21d3cebb/sufukavizinizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm40p18ei2sj5sudtkfg23o075/gomidama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ee0d3b27f7884b978e07cd801e74b6a/64791171040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/jubutibagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7a114dba3b28b85aba3b819b3cf0cd/87362220724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/nafasematozotimugozaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909d122f80b---kosoripomixivovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c76c3110daa358bbc601d041e582440/29967224208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/36179339907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/96007582222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000105e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E3 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 22015a5f1da475a728bebfc187ed360dc2e7df07e7a9753062274e8dc9589fcb
font_01_sfnt_off00011c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A6 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 13418457a1f6e9c6108ac1fb1a6c44379ba7a47d0152ea076dd0fceef27bbc1a