Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a702a8e523109f33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6bd0c44c0c9c03db849a2efed06e91fc SHA-1: 995987960c696e274ba1107c67e2145f32ab3ad5 SHA-256: a702a8e523109f33966fef26d0713dbad02375a089d26abb09e1c893b94edff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brain+teaser+apps+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b5630f03563d89ecbfc4040be1248f/lufigugoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amityhr.com/userfiles/file/wuridajofasefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362957361a6---jejufowugopowiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/vilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/7011677037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fs-select.com/images/blog/file/ruzevipubiragakuxutakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/17890695563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81bc961f5e8e0f3827908ff7cdbd2fd/44530924512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/kevoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/44096934003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ba0765c0a---gidaxobowogobarapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/96763272325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/98899890073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50130943317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get.belonnanotservice.ga/away?/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614996b423393---36938382629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/92970343494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65119505810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/117144d13d083d8c5238fb98c2f26415/16072948526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hefcom-hydraulics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80956183920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210922223443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/sasezuwidevutekalumegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4uvdfq5o0u633gov15os1a00u/jemulivugewotumifufenida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/41254149289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofuwujixuwetipa.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_off0000de70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF682 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 812d33f0f34e195434de589caa1fb401b1b86da14230faf222898892f1e67557
font_02_sfnt_off000122ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EC 10500 bytes
SHA-256: c4fbb37dd1eb9ffd460e017366cc35aa89d0c100c4ada1359da64d608de9cb2d