Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2807357b2ca3604…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c3e99880c2152333e83fe25c3372e0b SHA-1: b467f6048a0d5a5a4221fa98dcd97f4b69a21ca7 SHA-256: a2807357b2ca36045c62e593c91910049f6e69102e2ae57bd3ecb5bd35ec0cba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for malware distribution or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=resident+evil+4+android+download+apk
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/moxawejepafonokokatipejij.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134be7d1b9ba---55137063826.pdf
    • http://shopphutungmayphat.com/upload/img/files/letemumeniwakawituzaj.pdf
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/92927488158.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df48e9b1e7---negetufag.pdf
    • http://www.rsvpcatering-ar.com/files/imagesfile/81563149720.pdf
    • http://heibldr.hu/FCKfeltoltott/file/83483243240.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437a298ce34---37721908660.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613492f454be7---19015552415.pdf
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44477160000.pdf
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/sobozefalosepepedasut.pdf
    • http://thienanglass.vn/upload/files/nolipokugasigiwut.pdf
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/kegifesiliz.pdf
    • http://vietsaovang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jirazajikuzase.pdf
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/walelukopotunu.pdf
    • http://elitsatodorova.com/uploadfiles/file/vuwarejudufig.pdf
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/92589524775.pdf
    • https://tsolisp.com/files/file/86228768458.pdf
    • http://studiolorenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/lopudisom.pdf
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/torinixatet.pdf
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/nibozogogonexazaxadavibut.pdf
    • http://likebarcode.com/image/files/20210911_013844.pdf
    • http://ilkconstruction.com/Images/Media/files/31082610128.pdf
    • http://thsport.dk/userfiles/file/70624373283.pdf
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/25526913244.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3c8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbda.bin
0734aefaa37857aa2a05fc830d9b9e24dfc3dfae315ea3bab00e685bc1e6e3ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBDA 14504 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef97.bin
a4aa7c4068241567bd7a64db737f55dffc7ef48544490ea5f2de9800147f4a03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF97 10752 bytes