Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2a8305ed890d2d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:21:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f3452fa06e9daa00bf9f5ee5e0b9df60 SHA-1: f6b37b0d04b83d93a4c62d379669e5e0d60a4813 SHA-256: d2a8305ed890d2d829eeadfea338e2c448efec0c4638f0f2cc521e57c03074ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+biological+community+of+interacting+organisms PDF link annotation
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/puzogokafabisigopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/20175743471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ba02d8f355c15701935d3f79b6a0c1/dujadapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747e9b24031---66467206145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancingstarsgreenwich.net/clients/1/10/10f73e4104fe6082999c9b722aa65ba2/File/49940789449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6e4d406dadae2c27970c95ff38cc0e1/vozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d10f98dd7---79621548789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f1b3ea36db3f2be9b3a4d643d8acccc/sirawezuzirerokamexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6900904694---46034955297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/91447608029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3667b596a1712294a0fdcd289c3e43e/80214672637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61466087405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/vumeroposumezozowiduwatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d6d059d323635377cb8364133dd4dd/92985559056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///20210508131459_809472083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/laxomubobotomalikiwixebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/36862385863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfd4ae797c---zudokawazowezupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9757cij7729ugi64tt85c14jv/52852609256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc891b448e---vusinenopagiwiwewasigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ad2884943---bolenosakebozuzader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/24647033239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e465d04054---44221943167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0436bcafe9f29bb65065847ad5455e48/rasenutabipavexoxisad.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_off0000f36d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36D 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 150aaa89690365d88d72dee0d6ef9c9582693937b21b14d1fa191f60e6556a99
font_01_sfnt_off000120d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D2 11012 bytes
SHA-256: e8bafb627a32af3bcab1c7aed1bfba285135ecde604b68fef575d495f55a09cf
font_02_sfnt_off00013a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1