Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3213a580f38ba90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:27:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3b9ac57d4d532eec5a2869823a6a37a5 SHA-1: 643711ee3dff6f5f3c6192fc71fd1c4297c9e605 SHA-256: a3213a580f38ba90cb502c2a2f3406cde9166161435dc01e217b52cbb76d1b38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to redirect users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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=thenx+mod+apk
    • http://cataga.de/beta/files/file/nasaferalinarofe.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af3bd41512---37044520710.pdf
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/78089211268.pdf
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/33689662593.pdf
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67599182080.pdf
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109070323466915.pdf
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wolowigidejixul.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ea3acd572---zedepinaneririma.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35f960f4794455f01e9980f29708dcd/dezuteginoruwixufiw.pdf
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/juselodurom.pdf
    • https://efckrakow.pl/userfiles/file/kegejuwudutiwut.pdf
    • https://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/39263573645.pdf
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowasit.pdf
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/23455525613.pdf
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/49986748890.pdf
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/40446675801.pdf
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39804821615.pdf
    • http://wangguanhardware.com/userfiles/file/89395221118.pdf
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabutolonudeganune.pdf
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/wonesosi.pdf
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/pigoja.pdf
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nff2jevnh3krn90cr9b2fh5hqj/kilidebilavifutaxuj.pdf
    • http://hortherbpublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/96916072850.pdf
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/xifumuzarajagiposawuw.pdf
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/wujop.pdf
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/97245456732.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_off0000e003.bin
ed8e94d893be07331cff7841d8422199dbd8bb95baad7f6e0f02d53b80f2def7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE003 17316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ca1.bin
dedee6d08884263ba4701c14782b0dec2e5d2a93d75bfec2b1495d2a61d56b0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA1 10308 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001239e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1239E 16792 bytes