Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a1be400260c2398…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 06:47:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 805d8a461a1aeb8f39b08547abaf0a8b SHA-1: e26a9bbbce622f1b1f7e50371d1e50f8dbe06046 SHA-256: 3a1be400260c2398ea694a0b0bd0c56b5709189676fffe2f31cfabd791bd1a4e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to trick users into downloading files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://fluffy-chins.com/images/file/varexaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/10956689193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/70878643530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93466efe7c3e3dc7d6bda2791b2b6065/gitigigekituxetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipoz.pl/userfiles/file/sepenulevuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/54578020146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanchapleau.com/userfiles/file/mimizebafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613967975feda---23595708905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/27386473274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385f0222669---25199405776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210904171426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.satunatc.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daziwageweresafeworere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiajihlava.cz/UserFiles/File/pakagusefato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/zipimuniwedekoxamek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150006.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210906011524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/39730552885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/kaxezarafexanerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49086150956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kepco-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/71559712953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/zeguzijivujagozorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38098622251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=xshare+file+transfer+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000d43a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC51 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 4c2e4cc08cd92236d8001016b1cded32cccfc4cf2334463e49be83615947af7c
font_02_sfnt_off00010519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10519 18000 bytes
SHA-256: dc2840742a41fcc4643feec22aee7b3686c4db28733318df76be701ad7f1e67f