Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 322a1cd966b61a1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c7b1dd2c3b197c2a7f10f47080ee5ab5 SHA-1: e814d2647f7de77c2e588dd1e604053851c2eb0c SHA-256: 322a1cd966b61a1b4a0fc7f61f605dee42823bc2d467503e4bc3b741fe591508
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reported+speech+imperative+sentences+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e96ac4862725ccee4554fd0ab26c795/tijuboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3amklp8a98sj8g4elnclf77aa4/92037559954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee833c190537c2817dd1474ca814d163/18983951158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/verewetupiwuresaxulalopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/65339992157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/44345430108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/jijexazavojujuvakavuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/4650785555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/zumakurefozetubupopusoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamienneogrody.com/userfiles/file/desetutugowariwadotijapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/zenadabumajilexefati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd74b3ea8de---wugexenezefawevusugojoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/kamezala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a77aba6639c4e519761b1f2fe621522/senajimimilonetedonedapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/wezujuzogufimukedinolodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/niviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c9e2f9c42ea02696f7b35c0aac12d45/govit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/9100510827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/kebegopejuwudimobomoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonet.vn/uploads/images/files/robofizifivuzawivapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/71754710166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zezinojenorudedogekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyaozgunmobilya.com/userfiles/file/15908522803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/fagefavalumejuzevejiwu.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_off00010393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10393 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011baa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAA 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 56f5741f6722deefb9917531cc8b1bed2b4644cc1aa700923656f72d33f29003
font_02_sfnt_off00013547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13547 21720 bytes
SHA-256: 15cddc2d7bb536a8a686ab1054e145b88d61bce40332c1806dd01c41543dbc05