Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2ffb5867ccade3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3abbb9a5e2f13c38f2368bee4711b93e SHA-1: 337feaca9e9e3a10cf13750d37889c8e64be97f6 SHA-256: a2ffb5867ccade3dad2a5745a8276f6f8bbf415a10d32e0222e30f776ee68b21
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are hosted on WordPress installations. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nasa+trivia+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b56271bb74---fakejabafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd2ccb159e8a150f9f508ace75aa7197/zivigevunele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad7fb44e6c---70550512400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxloanchien.com/style/postimage/file/kadikanefulime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/dobebefajuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/35758355842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e6e85708a---56774355592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/44241737718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/vusofefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d6efe2c5e---nugovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089939ae2c01---38974311908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/tujejiwemovinexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/47462699417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc30d825f6---83132960009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/duzovurakuxuvidojurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981aedda90f---27273186591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098baca1c0ad---24918896540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/sapidisubuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/minodojosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/ec328a5687fe86c9dac23df2b781b257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/zuxupolukase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/64884195291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/51274115602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f15c91561---buvuw.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_off0000f370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF370 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 29445529eaf9af247ed2342f71a17296638bc64957193a5f21b3c23d7e3df557
font_01_sfnt_off00012198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12198 10572 bytes
SHA-256: c7319d52ba2ceb4082fd03961ccd9c5d35c0a19538461716dc6421c8f53043ef
font_02_sfnt_off000139b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1