Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c1b342e9d08054…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7b90272bbb3faf9a2db338ff4f4ea9ee SHA-1: 18d55072f43c5bfce8bb7b694628550e90980d24 SHA-256: a2c1b342e9d080544b10a8de1a0932c30a5b644846926305cab47f4f8296fbfe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm, including links to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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 http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/ponivujefonamerisoka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48641005563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/zegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142206c50576---16592677649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/73263402166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/ledoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df5cd8f30c90aa0705595ff427e7b135/13691985374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/66304770457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoamo.com/data/dulieu/files/7051236060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/5663429926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromacosmetics.bg/assets/userfiles/file/volifimilipesesatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613deeb7f0eff---87582449901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/6540932440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanchapleau.com/userfiles/file/topixamozirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/17308346366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/92621958818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/xelevixetekuxalozekumoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/31563095479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/72340715428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintniklaas.kinderopvangpimpeloentje.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66579895728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/34819563452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://support-cmu.com/filedata/file/didimivoruzorajifatiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/guminojunegilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+s6+android+updatePDF 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_off0000e8a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B3 16904 bytes
SHA-256: 113f68d2c4b2e4988d715519b04b81203db64cb905e8f5d9fd9302a93d319cf8
font_02_sfnt_off00011918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11918 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 2f7f6f748c6f0c104e5f356833b558aae2472c3350569a3fcf4869e74ff4f962
font_03_sfnt_off0001336a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1336A 17720 bytes
SHA-256: de82602ac33ef78f8de3c234141f21befd1355f92a8001e6341d8049ef9f543d