Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 282a3b53d1d87378…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-26 15:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9757fad90b9075e4300630faa8b285d8 SHA-1: b2bc778ee02571d2602e32f064c84f5dce6c1c10 SHA-256: 282a3b53d1d87378a71539ea2eef08b3f254a0b640d9533d1aaac811826ecebe
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits multiple indicators of malicious activity, including links to compromised CMS uploads and a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of a visual download button further suggests a user-deception tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate this is a malicious PDF, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://afayl.com/userfiles/file/45458261439.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/102204289274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinarioassociatopacinidallatorre.eu/userfiles/files/26888883924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/94880509984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/witewopigiwubokozutexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/8211165238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/11200039777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ff167d080---sazipubate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/34052862356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf204c752e9---zazoregotibojejaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/gabasuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0g29h52sgu7sefpai2cr59g74/44858342731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nlpnb9hmerjtlbdsurejrlno8/17171799783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/83214858940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/91321139147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oversaslogistica.it/file/3599467699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d35edab01c58b0e55f54a339e5f174df/98605577900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a7c63455d438ca24ff325440caf346b/65562509774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/xenedirenive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5c2c3696fac4f43c0e789c0e2a9607/72358377757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27025129833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc17920f168---bifuwiliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miracleschoolministries.com/survey/userfiles/files/mujafobokudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=boom+beach+hacks+iosPDF 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_off0000d7c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C1 17588 bytes
SHA-256: dcac2469f68e5da3fba5e956bc82c52f208eee92b11de7a823fa1eb580a6552c
font_01_sfnt_off000105e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E3 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 8730b90164ab98e05e4638aa923f9b425282be78cf7aec5e588757c1006b1b8e
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1