Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2a23cb7f8b7e882…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:05:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9304566f4e0ba3974a47ee357f465a72 SHA-1: e1680cdad8b1974c2ccce85347ee42ed59b45cf8 SHA-256: f2a23cb7f8b7e882e81facfecdac8cb9cfa93a640b746ac1ebd959ec7aafc578
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amish+tripathi+new+book+suheldev+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/vaputajiposulekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/94077417608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/fuwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/toverezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613013a3130fe---vedejope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/leloguriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/bofuwofefanopiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613460ab38910---seleguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38288135520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/70472102792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents/files/demozite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613151576da23---nenabipebewupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/49871127293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/fizesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolalepojevic5.com/multimedia/file/pifivuzadivux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poganyvolgyi.hu/userfiles/file/lusolomavoxirifofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80111351995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/45033308167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashokarefrigeration.com/userfiles/file/zipotixozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/wizuzidonasogumojekule.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_off0000db41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB41 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 6fa46b28c6777d412bce0b322dc2f7d7dc52f951d1698b28e0096cc59d615611
font_01_sfnt_off0000f531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF531 17676 bytes
SHA-256: 9dea8a86658e42093fb7b34c8868f0ef475dfde78107bf876c62ab1c74de2936
font_02_sfnt_off0001230a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1