Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2860c918effe852…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:35:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 325cca5203e60795583238f731bb3407 SHA-1: 187c01e4a837ae373a146a96d91035bdf3a962ad SHA-256: f2860c918effe8525c0417b859f37c7e3a3554cc19ae066384c9408ef97f9fc4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86129988043.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109b56ab0db9---69779595207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161254a8674e1d---3082011978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/58667341302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/pokogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/73229160190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/68236537156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfo-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/84917470643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2425d8708---35804272744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/13872692988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd357172174d1c4c318d390f698564b4/lupufelezexisikejanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/vipuxulabirilozowoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://violetstudio.in/userfiles/file/kuzinuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2249277196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888chji.com/userfiles/files/vujuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jofuvaxasiruzosilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.com/userfiles/file/letokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telesson.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/pemolumazedolegujuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/64127106623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/sutusanavubikapola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/936ddc6b509412dc676b2e69ad5ac9ce/35847981489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/95761515048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/89159389149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/26818283370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/22551293024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f1ad2e2a64e71067d8fa399e8adfc36/72899473030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cubesat+design+specification+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_off0000d8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CC 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 4edb4e98351db460cac8b58db770d9959f75e438bd835ec01840de59d6ae27db
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D3 17872 bytes
SHA-256: bef48f9e240e1f5005274e94069e08356ae9c4683bc1a60822f4673820c46889
font_02_sfnt_off00012062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1