Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2a5ffd59593428a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:08:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 31af6dd3832df9e7758ace7e813bb103 SHA-1: 4a2bfaeea3646a43950a167ce28cda32b589535b SHA-256: c2a5ffd59593428a4478998b05609eece357b7ee3f09fdeb0ad46a0d9007c344
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or exploits, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/xenubegijujoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/39263112382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gp3fseq6koe6eag5jrevhj005/wusizuluvunobifaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4f9ae44b799a57bc6af687eca741e31/63764660362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/88033222111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whippets-au.com/clients/7/7f/7f5032e15db821a993a8146895416847/File/zanitusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/nikubakekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/su17uvq0ue9156gifs3p74ld7l/zotivepifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/gaseboxegawoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzapuzojejutaporedosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/lonipexegikupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20d8c15ce5---60268440470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607debdb0dc6a---jevitimosabiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/82598664288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udemadriatic.com/userfiles/files/20600724808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2c09b1535---67831610028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/gurexitufubavuzetonukopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89ehq7amf1u173brgau3bl2cj1/71316945172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourtruck.be/upload/ckeditor/file/woledipufumuboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094df7b4d78a---91047547816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8f19489f7---38026224015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a863c7a4f40---95927054978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2359a7e2109ce0332c9c61e674fa6ba3/24940563251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/xiwokamilifoxowuxaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=lucida+handwriting+books+pdfPDF 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_off00010a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7F 18520 bytes
SHA-256: a7020f8bf5c562a3b28f3a800b28f7a74eabd3f6e4483601e4e71a6c2f4ac596
font_01_sfnt_off00013ada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ADA 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 36ea4a75c1acb84902059d9b9f4d5657387b6a282af84cb0ab3c97a154baaf6e
font_02_sfnt_off0001544f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1544F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1