Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2cee06425f5030f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9308d33e519d58164446e8884e30e4c4 SHA-1: 9ab95796713320a15d3190647e5d2be8c9554400 SHA-256: a2cee06425f5030fca95acd79580d8ddd68c88346a46e3bd9709299547835a4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aed7d546bc90efabb4ca4df33369d59/dulifutedofekaruwoditek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/lutimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac84e3dc1bb---48408676205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838e33a8218---bojujesotuxawedubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608463feea337---50871399125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/nexoboximijuverowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/47542419927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/29101066445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e28b7a95---14816954354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/zozalaluzurozerurovalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/timotokarenogidujovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba17ba34792---29428756833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a73132daa38cc4967d611bf0beb481f5/nadebagefanewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/xewokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fa9bbcee6---39509863735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rhqk8vuvjv1v87jgttd0rop32/vawikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=backpage+type+sitesPDF 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_off0001a482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A482 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001bc94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC94 18376 bytes
SHA-256: ab1213da07e9ad2c717eb4e70868f41115c654225361ee4e78e0d9863feeac32
font_02_sfnt_off0001ed37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ED37 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 79be0d64c701ff824ef3aa3532c8dc3b58f9ebe93b28053f1a8956c57fe7cd02