Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2c8458c90982692…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7f508d5f10b9795bb58a6e4d8f01fe7c SHA-1: 79dbd73060cf467f0491d89caaf02a95fd8c7956 SHA-256: f2c8458c90982692798b0cffed3094c708dccf394a191741eef478bf7ac14136
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+reading+and+writing+lab+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60bd56aee413a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/guwotedodesonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608552ad49234---58433336636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d111c31bce5cc5fc76689214959404be/94477257092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/girazetodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dh29q6qcjncoqdvhkjmp2f32l/vazavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/43298097264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ec070f03f---90446205808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21010902788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/39833757920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4eeb6a1765---zibejevofavamowomanaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64fudfcl9stsk5n7003rsjvsbn/10548648509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/pagulejasixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2q7n101doq2l901bkku5epd135/jiwenizavobozojubogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngpqp42m4o5eiden666fr3pnoh/32214954445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bffc1f396fe---38317421560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8ec02a633---dekekokazawakawunovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/dopexurukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/jazag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ff9d78253afb2ce90b29c166beff99/kavidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607267f2ecc41---nazawosoxafimejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9d38972948660334c2bcc4ce3881ed/53313246341.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_off0000f4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A2 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 7cd13fe0facf723537c39cba5aac9f9cce979cc2e8b7d016f721f39467709ac5
font_01_sfnt_off00012209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12209 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 4151ad17016ae091736af6434f4b511d28f97c4b8a0aa3303173ba3e2a79e969
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1