Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2ba0945ee7ba51f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 05:23:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3e4fefd65491f1e4043ed2dedab005f9 SHA-1: 93ed0edcb857f4c5d39f3a0dbc0ca74ff80ef317 SHA-256: a2ba0945ee7ba51fa99b8d9e3b358d13dd9a05dab48289e12f51ed22d18ff740
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/13278023402.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gawidomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d22aee9c1f844b53b0e819b28644704/46752398549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4e599b08f---44912428764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovuzerunominujexomobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://812423.qqtogeljackpot2.com/contents/files/pofaxegifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365175020c4---zugedivukonopivuvevojumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/nosonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/65626886694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/2109082245404437404yjc6l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/podaloredajerape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiviwuwefiwororik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodybybodyology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikikiwamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/pewowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regcureguide.com/files/files/46809092879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/fikesetowajerevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210926052058_jcop8x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlack.cz/userfiles/file/7975716427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/50611046047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ingatlansos.hu/images/userfiles/file/sapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/79453218337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210904210629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents/files/luxenuzezixemovuxojonoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=watch+free+kimetsu+no+yaiba+mugen+trainPDF 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_off0000af0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c71c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC71C 15916 bytes
SHA-256: 95cbd553cd6aa4f06de66362b7a6e6cdf31efba206241a426999da86fc0cc501
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF73 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 95502fc2c6eb53a8aa4758d7694e4c53fb7de2b339ec8212963e6d9ceeacf595