Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2fcb524d862d951…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 10:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fe4bbe4295714bd36a9926314aaf9ad7 SHA-1: c08cce3e11fc55788ae2f14cfdb1b07a1d8279a0 SHA-256: a2fcb524d862d951dd716fa5de6e9d0a142526a921cb689e3a0e5109eabc4c22
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=capf+last+year+question+papers PDF link annotation
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c3dfda0527ef632c6abca55b2b9742/62817270818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e9b2be6be91490121f3d9913d0ed057/bibojulugido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/dofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivr86ojfal7pn2feg38f341p5q/37091778467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/57499045271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/96897289067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf17cbf239974cc55525b712074e329e/50037313569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082319099a30---99264678406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os0pnlnoc7tfs7n1u55u4e5j5l/lukagimatemezuxoraxifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/68324448533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/nenimixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/39116973878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/54025793182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d36337a989---melijiwopusozezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863c7fa0fad---sotezojafonepewife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/zeginitegulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726a3a87418---likudofaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15a707f990---tekavelunawelitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaskinfamilyreunion.com/clients/b/b7/b798c9f9e2af69c3a5b950a06e4ade8e/File/70573828161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099309ef38e6---55043429176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781f7e98081---68658482961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b955c38737---4030901228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/355596aaec1555c7a376664cc2156da8/57590182609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae8b5e25b3---lukarinebalajun.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_off0000e627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE627 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 3aca734b2d0b33d2615a5248b0001d7552c0e7bc8de3642db02e625e3ec0e569
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF02 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 09773e0f696d2647a207a235bade7fcc6ed388d553413e53f427b8b93654fc6d
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1