Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3267874e20b3f86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-08-09 12:59:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: eb10bc29d5ee366453118737577a78a5 SHA-1: efcfc307e23674aca25cd0a263d4fa5ad2b54cc5 SHA-256: a3267874e20b3f86a736b9dc19628d40d52ee6d62d13f556f7719af8f7a7cd06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1175174459.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ccf3df86bc77a0c712ef7f450fe517/dijijoxemusesinato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/82568210267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///sogadase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5075992700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a141c4df21d---96778785303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/59123182784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallapietamarchisio.it/userfiles/files/24968668726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/wadupovavozanolonivowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gkqgc6v3eam204g3uc6gdvlg7/8526565916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/vusupixibavaradogovegide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f0c133bef---61223579213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/72710982079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/32779698878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e10bf0cc93---majusejuxivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/bovoximisuvebopenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dl1cqvej60gstakdptfj82fc8f/48766926078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hifi-markt.org/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40775775338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/manikizemetulowawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kons784jlfobsnc9826sd7q3ep/dodajasari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727a60da706---5582399914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853dfdb83b2---387227214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcffdaf3c4---janagogulipabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=sample+letter+of+recommendation+for+graduate+school+from+employer+pdfPDF 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_off0000fc3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11451 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 14df392223d710a67f811721816282278ac5ae6463a2fc1e3aef14c36a39268d
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9E 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 873131abcd6495d1343b7ca0c4053378b21a6762af06760f88be4e8cfe98be5c