Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2ea9c4842786023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-22 21:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bf55084e17f428fc8d1c28089aae9451 SHA-1: afd988428f99a9fdc64e05926bca9753dc121016 SHA-256: d2ea9c484278602369da3a1af696c8fe78530b234f8f749f209429ddd6ac9287
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to hide its malicious intent rather than present legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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 https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v315o2of548gp5q9rfjaieflt3/nirodutanigajinujodikujip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610123231990096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djj8t2ehgi62qri865egjg54lu/batub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/lodekilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76opagh8813ahmofhdm13cjqqr/910515374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/44718434775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/narakonoxorobupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a59c0738ccc54d244c90786a37889a1/1497751039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/96173054206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f34493735c---97024981385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ln9d40dgbmd1r4plkphslm6u1/40805665885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/13793444772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc0499d480e---19663966984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eff31437dc---rewijejizofuleditas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/jivex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607242e4a1e3b---64028638413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48ae2f3c17---79026151473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karolusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/78999748947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/remitowepitumunaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/nisupebutajuzozofaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dc7e26ee4bd958ecd6eca4b626075a6/60495877600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcdc26f64f---dedamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588f2b592482cd5bf389a7ea02dfe374/vupuzokoxurobawezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+class+9+chapter+3+science+solutionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5AD 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 5f2a87ed485690ae99dd00ffd3dad57dcaf6de75c4981ecbeeee12bb760f3f7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB06 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 4497d5d80246a1503f87ff3a6b21c7163e1c002d4644a61fce9103ff2ee7c63e
font_02_sfnt_off000127a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013fbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FBC 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 4579f550ea915cc3979c7c22346c5ff2fb9189de54a7c4d3694463450d6ae9d6