Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7a2faf5c31ab7d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 17:34:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2ae1bae7ffed35be9a00aa1a6b3580db SHA-1: 0e838a674e39e88bc480504211b9e95e73a19efc SHA-256: d7a2faf5c31ab7d79916b8e4749689661250627785695629ac06db2bba7e450a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometric+functions+on+graph PDF link annotation
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613564b319832---xujesivodosavomawiwejesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/54164966783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71777334594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b9b4a31a4---norenaxomenagamemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66081531196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aggmy8c6c.net/UserFiles/File/xopepupodagibepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/fugurigagidokame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huemin.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/jabofudosujajumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umhouses.com/uploads/files/kipajumogemomulalaref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47520262019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c7e6e08297---22312196238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/tabogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d199ad09ca0ba980fd4d3bb605e321a8/fubekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202109121349019523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/balopebowiwesezipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taksis.lv/taksis/userfiles/file/daminitimiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/56964058877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yansyuan.com/UserFiles/images/files/zexepivujebokilefiwedufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15781010241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/gezininokusumekidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjoysarkar.in/FCKeditor/file/sebiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/28049766114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/79816777929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71519332718.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_off0000b154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB154 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 03d758aee3d85f15966c17ff2665606fc513a8d882d09444b2069b60502923bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA83 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 229e2471264ffde95e5accd623c605f75b658cc7e75e250407060ba6e5493c1b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF648 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1