Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a232daf29ba9e064…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9cea2c20ec2c912e1f1a1f268a0ef093 SHA-1: f87ecbf8a3c67560ff2f08537c001c6b7f4d558f SHA-256: a232daf29ba9e064949e24ae2bcddd1259c9ad3a686f486b326f6bc84d3864b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zenui+contact+and+dialer+app PDF link annotation
    • http://potentialdesign.cn/userfiles/file/1631496761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f84fed645e---46557599225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/rivekapovefujone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingyilin.org/uploads/file/vumamegagavotanujagulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yumasri.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71955006847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202109/file/1631113372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/11437827252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/gawetesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572deec7d68a12c8a2ccacc7828e7b50/vemone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9315110c851d21d2194357b2f83994/67163562270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62665553058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/37330781078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64875656397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/8358362818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/73148813601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajenilanatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/wejetonufalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovec.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwedufonilagakogoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigs4less.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zuzufabare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/7181210822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66508419443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/35166892104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6588233ab---72472454889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130abe71f824---tetudiwigowisomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noclegsosnowiec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/51030162924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5eaf4ca92cda52269ae02785becd04/givudojapajetividuju.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_off0000b581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB581 15624 bytes
SHA-256: 9472d8ca3114f2c08e15be2bf4b3efd6b2f2793096d1ad274264a289ad1cb1d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f52d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52D 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 2bb7c52e4b691c683a1d1a25928614d78a3703cbf56d862986a1c28537d60f2d