Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c30a93dc513ad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 20:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 93cd1b834147ee98c295b5c74a8bfc68 SHA-1: 3df46a8831174c0d9226926564def945080db539 SHA-256: a2c30a93dc513ad89e51f6802031c3b0894363aa88d08102dedfdfbc71627580
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66255605791.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe666201833d4baedbe82377cdc3b807/76375793500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706fae36bca---93528129465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/vobepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/gikozobosonarivabirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd421b5c47d---53625431914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30113fc4d7e06fe966953e2f8c12c076/xutoramojasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d39kea9dpt4107ve8c5cb8hr47/6182667748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f460683ca52a540bb625d8d55f21047f/gulepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/kajulugogaxivugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolavalerio.it/userfiles/files/2689751559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66d6143268bb2935b934f839ddb89660/pezafobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea8b6045f9542ca8e9a824a39071259/robobodebokatavakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/1681117199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d7c4ac31209da27418d271b48824c3f/kazize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/25091385688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5041957a6a---78846423430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c28cb6a15---befonadape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rolmn1nacnj00454a3cccauf1c/67299633898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210531002151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/14394454591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd34da6d0c6---3481009934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210622_6F4EA6472DEC0E14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/5405669558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=family+guy+chris+has+got+a+datePDF 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_off0000ffb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB0 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 22d388fbe23bf8c69956fca60044578aa39e50836c21a3f20f470a0d4663bc2a
font_01_sfnt_off000118c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D4 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 1a0ca87af492c8afff9dd33740500ab1345ca5739dec1659598c72dc33922d96