Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c6265d5cad5fcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.4 KB Created: 2021-06-07 22:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 7707e82857950a39150950793d9420af SHA-1: 450dc4d85272ad489b1343c6d3d2810796190bc9 SHA-256: a2c6265d5cad5fcf85b39e56a0a86fcbeb6315b620dd63d241043d605ed97b9d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or link farm campaign. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further malware. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7441

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=design+thinking+e-book+pdf PDF link annotation
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    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1db82f34a10b6994a87867028045859/9716164116.pdfIn PDF document text
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