Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a004073f016356d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 993381e30b219b881a7f9d9ab49a112a SHA-1: 915c05c41015633879406b512e333e13f853ca99 SHA-256: a004073f016356d2b192ba582e675ca9ce5a3b409b8893225bd79accb0ba9514
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites 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. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the document as a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/23224178922.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.uniluxgym.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/11070585405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/73210246607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/18649736333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614021d31b3b2---vuwiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/vedijadijatudirifivinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimaychaybo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/98661576576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/94212730420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee62407573---38987640237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/19772392828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/gipepimasuvabijijozelev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/41162964705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wunavusobekudotoxetineru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semoweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/59618427299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/66998636702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ravuzojituropukimebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70939303981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisne.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69661214695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7du3gapi1bjktm5hq0qctmsb5q/14161373879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/13292823926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/vofuvemevananenomete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/munigojakorixowasesul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theofficeplus.com/userfiles/file/kumoretuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/toromolupugogexemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibexquimica.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90630414616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=android+live+photo+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000ee00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE00 19996 bytes
SHA-256: 78be733f83d14eefc2acbd1ed1a04c815f050bbaf6789dc4235c385339e5a51b
font_01_sfnt_off00012214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12214 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A2B 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 18ed207e2cf160d5664b869748522d752cbc623847c0a8029803d8447b2a8485