Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2a5b44844457342…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:19:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 800c0723cbb4391666008905962f2dfa SHA-1: ee51080be7a71569908a2bb1b6ac934f01762aba SHA-256: f2a5b44844457342f652bc06e79bf08382b38e01d3f3abc19451043af8cb4642
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guillaume+musso+un+appartement+%C3%A0+paris+pdf+gratuit PDF link annotation
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ffbdcea6d---jozusilogojovewala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a5d0e7bc8e4b1587805c0fbb7ae5c9f/93855202556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c667f896c65---zaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/19712356220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669q8u8j8gh6kpv02mchcbdru2/24114376930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/zagebavatapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babc25e0bbb---rebuzajanetipese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/90505725973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/moqvm68el93hp5padt0qiioj1n/6719906848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d76007c9a7d---wodanamudinonokata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609989a257542---luzetozotilona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a724d3702---43816945191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0af69a3fe---joxudejuvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739eba65533---galololowolunafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/mufisige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents//files/jevafeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gisrquvbmf5b1ec646ilaek7i2/lejadomilavewanezizafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/ditodaraweguxoniduxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/56131412396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e49720f6afd179e41f9f67619af4e39/91749587151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2abaca71fb8ce3cd3e7090f043d2dacc/wodokigakebese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/53283136726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/9983284209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okinawa4d.com/contents//files/16789958641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec428257b25---dasizonasek.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000e4c0.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE4C0 18288 bytes
SHA-256: a928fb438e100b3b1e8fe2c579418a79636cae49712c4e20312253e62feacec8
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001020a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020A 11164 bytes
SHA-256: b6a72e3675716a88aef5e539fa8392be4139f56b04d06b06232af847557ee0f5
font_03_sfnt_off00011b81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B81 20268 bytes
SHA-256: 4fa08b9e77aca150436414eddfca8eb1cd1579ef783541a22ad20317c13f12c9