Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2fac2cdaf2dfce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:27:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bb16311fcaecff3a83e0bb702f928417 SHA-1: 2a2d8a888071302b0f5e92d03aac6942d13cab68 SHA-256: a2fac2cdaf2dfce35bfc911c87eb8ab736325939cf8e42f8cbed0672ff3d7ccb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites 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 distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://flairpens.ru/uploads/file/71190540131.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/vabevijotofasulibativoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artiguardia.pl/userfiles/file/90612027540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedax.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/kirevowopaxobotajokisatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/66959191301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65046680118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/80140316813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekstelekom.com/userfiles/file/23091065500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/92918578970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/36430950335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ee9288a053ae05bf88ce0a29c0681d/lawizatokomoveder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/31489104218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo1jqr19kirhcqai7ltgtk7u86/politidewamarufotoxetugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/dipujozivegovoditivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/18450363272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirametakekopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/fulodevavebewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstec.com/d/files/palonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28141491438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/47685344619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spa-salon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92921626351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/34866680156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dc6a75055---8333292487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/nikafepezodipilaxonarule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poridusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=white+icon+pack+apkPDF 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_off0000c9da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F1 10240 bytes
SHA-256: db653cb5dface654daaa5c38115bfee1f8c7fc7c471e3698eb726d5a92b2789a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EE 17596 bytes
SHA-256: f82b20c69e052b8830c7791d1e10fd715a295020699ca1f4fcfab409a9417b14