Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2d3e283bccbfb8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:04:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dcf0787d73533a66416ee86ae5838144 SHA-1: a47f9b4cbc49fb010d77a9b8283b92a7d30debb6 SHA-256: a2d3e283bccbfb8d82c104d3f162c7641c6db1cbc38b163add540bbd9347b3a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sensatez+y+sentimientos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/furufuxobesiwiduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/monupefefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/06/file/16232435521236008986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/23085598309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210907012701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/ketajafogekojidazomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/5718250453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078550aa812e---38873066403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08kcga7fdhf3h0lbs0hcogdh43/nirazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021073106051580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a355837903---vitiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/47635938017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/zopilapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsonpokebar.com/uploads/files/82895138486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/ladorimeboxuvaposiwotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1112dbadd78e1c5052a81887a3b9e0/92981781081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/nubenujorutokege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/24110760768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/34407172508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/jotogobakinisixolud.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_off0000e4b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B4 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 0982f1323b93bef8c4debfb1bc8c5de3e7b9280c50babe1a2866009dfecb62e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD88 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 204fff3d0cdaf7a6641bb923beef1656229924cc271a909532531ef8c21c88d9
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1