Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3259b451dbfc8f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9be0eff0f26066d86411a2667a4a3c3d SHA-1: aa6e8eb7284c601288bde54ab8a3b123bd39004f SHA-256: a3259b451dbfc8f4943398a44819e2e2893d37f3e4b42188da32545758a27693
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary function seems to be redirecting users through these links, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_CD7AC0FB975E2BE8.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/53320695524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f86b03d9fa---nudamopefavadiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902051918121297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/84599340553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hexema.com/FCKeditor/file/nasewekokigogupamapovakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaexploring.it/userfiles/files/jetuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0905/c5878d8f0be98c052e49e29bdc86cad6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/97986435612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138eb03ae9ab---xatixuzepetefupobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/91063853466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-onesrl.com/userfiles/files/rexukiguwazokekafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/30251966552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/metubipivagogonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1676636d1a26bc482b7e22cfc446a7/zurimuwugogemoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/pipoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti/usr/foto/files/30525143713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents/files/99770790891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52047828496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613020e23f5e2---sisepematonolubozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mertcelikkapi.com/userfiles/file/satisiboraxezojulebezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejefuxitoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/vinetodugixatuvobezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/solad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=one+ten+thousand+million+billion+trillionPDF 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_off0000dc6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6E 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 65b3da7ad7807320ae8d79beff5cb1be0a4bfd33e883b500656ea99a9f0f55d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FD 18948 bytes
SHA-256: ce456d8f8191859c48839eb8701b280d84ea96d55149c38171d5f63944d697d8
font_02_sfnt_off00012612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12612 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1