Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c7bf1b10589bb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:31:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 08d7457e40c0d3299fad2dbb92e3a010 SHA-1: dc49c5a9eb69e32ae96481dd03a604f1938d09bc SHA-256: a2c7bf1b10589bb9b47badb59859d63d62aaa529ce803081ddedfd52b341acc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to compromised websites or phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=red+dead+redemption+2+lady+slipper+orchid PDF link annotation
    • http://stroi-sistema.ru/img/96979422862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/vusibinonezamowexufivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8533c3010b2e5225cdebdd86377bf5ad/32281875415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09bdc70562813ab87ffb2772def47222/tosimidefimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e07eb5a5f---13110428902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72cb33bc9d---gozojokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/lufogiwotozaditesuwenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad10d3b4cd9---10398953868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0e6ca61d0---96871548088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p22tvais02dqim0ateta29rmgs/dujigosizudomizonizekiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4670220b097fa5b97f013763cc325b98/27550045226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/31949644695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b085dd924---38187361029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/dikamuxapejabudusoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/ruxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9fe0e37df6f87be245351206b6c9082/88368303359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/gokalalevesipefugasox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1eaabf0d9---xijorerifukasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ce4ebabda---nimimijodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welltowork.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33bf2c978de884e7f6fdf4181a1dbb29/lufewonomosidukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/66408101286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3449f8ec12---35848288926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c5d41a10d---85232271813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4ee2a16c3---95926388652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4966ae2ea6762125470e34bf798a1f/15789391566.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_off0000df17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF17 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 363a770264bb12d51b0bca8c00ec19dc9411445821c2164fc61e18d7e570d1c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110CB 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 3405f5ed2966c69e9f6a05780f71f0698ce7dfb9a15a64532fbe0a8b4b730173