Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2ec83e8f7e876f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 16:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 42185f0208fbeed223979eae5d491e5b SHA-1: 144828162e13afa0e78ee3d12c72f755df5ea550 SHA-256: a2ec83e8f7e876f592f385e0d91f9f6c5377b0a12341b78a4c151eb7165d72cb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the numerous embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ldplayer+4.0+android+7.1 PDF link annotation
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd672b4eb0fef685f3d1201c119732d/zunidaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609196c4a5373---sadonomusivene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a5605b754---49314091278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd8471996f8df3d104f1661b4d67652/45710712191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ck119qf25fb5km999io1820lm/surejilakujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/lumiduwapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62050f2bfc535ce864b48a97c570acad/21180094306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650258aa8cc766e95d0127f6dca5533b/jixovonuvofozobeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2307ffc81816ec89dcb51e122e27d871/madosobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2d1e23e273ba96e11263f3f6b4b5bd/45775042966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21fb078eb15774db48ca59dd56dd883/zaxifovatizamofamomameri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df0535dbe7f---33622917206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5uvqtlpb30cqnpv1eo4ja3c8p7/45278104495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uamarkets.com/images/file/pebiwebakamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akrtd7ilbm0pfitfs3o3mg5at0/luwinitumodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54c45b2fdbcea88afe9203f3c96c2af4/jamolorokanikivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/pabovixotadomeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/10517035609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/wivopogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607456441db1d---82646277409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d031ad69a3---35981478658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213d6082cdce2a0a083a1a5be016c715/74325896321.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_off0000efe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE7 10560 bytes
SHA-256: d0b7232101c3b9e0a2e115c5f6fee815465e63acb0b9b5b54cb98cafcdaf4213
font_01_sfnt_off00010822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10822 16496 bytes
SHA-256: b093cbca57a83cc2d5dac1a778423619abbf56dd62853cad285f34daca8c79b9
font_02_sfnt_off0001329f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1