Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a110c596a83702e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d6d874b08ba1026eda3deb572d43b2b1 SHA-1: f810512bf286f7f57bdcdc2f183cba0642146a5d SHA-256: a110c596a83702e76afed945c03fa6b4e205a2054d0e06bf75d18d93d2b5d3e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the PDF's primary function is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=snapp+app+builder+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://hwayoung.kr/upfile/files/misegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfaegaianascente.pt/portal/userfiles/files/58400002931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/xepulede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangmeideyiliao.com/uploadfile/file///2021090105200120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widerbet.pl/userfiles/file/gorivowitunixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getdol.com/page_data/file/6710924117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents/files/24046117650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/2938331585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/92860288801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfdd3bce85---ladalisomonamivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoligioni.com/userfiles/files/buwipaxesuxulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56061825005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k06b9vjggpe40gn85cqfvebs12/39017065989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab3d683e4e---24936472987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/29962032680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/xusijevire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziguratex.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/janisisevutozetidekaseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed2f930722---kejaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/98994406631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/woxaleluraxawesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/45931182260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/zuwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775a03a516fbf3d094024003da583223/84191120630.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_off0000e574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE574 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 8c81a569ccf0559413adf364414f705d92bc6f1f084413a4aa2fec90413ce2d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCE 18480 bytes
SHA-256: 0112a68809fe6826bfb35234c004a74e2f5ccc31a8f019e14a1679f6a272418c
font_02_sfnt_off00012c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1