Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a328690fea2289a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:09:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cd8804f3cb9ac5e64ba0cc0509ca92ef SHA-1: 814d21c0c215a20b062b06b2a9cec0fa6c0dd587 SHA-256: a328690fea2289a9000248c25fb3fc776c4efba91ffc8389ab140657ac95592c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown PDF files hosted on disposable or potentially compromised domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/sukebum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/jajegumize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/mekigalugamapumafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/fesomabisewudivibevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9442cc4a49ff2762e4d7e27e5035f4/kuzivafinevunuzulugatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r3l2a8klpbgf0dj1q3ttjlgq2/lobakuzadezevarapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202108170336062071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1d3411401---22404770097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/82001251984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklinbristerharveyfamily.com/clients/a/a8/a8910385c57dfddac3c6311e2bd1422e/File/lapipalukipogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1466123994c77d01b21cfb1d48ef41/67130021528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/15016725870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk63aou9pldq2l1im3t9rtcs1d/92433979929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c12fb1f8df334fc2182219402c302df/80340255358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55499275081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/weropexenuxawusifokikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/36378954139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/92032510489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/nirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ead1b2698dcc9a9624befbb43f3e08/sesutuvizugofadekege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1e8c293ba---44757527626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1e65a0200---35785537868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/delevamisuwupokuvasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/dipufojuredi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=things+to+make+in+your+minecraft+worldPDF 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_off00010b1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1C 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 0ab13d8137fb8ceef186c39030fc342cd3642319e52220d511c791993d741de6
font_01_sfnt_off00012546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12546 17604 bytes
SHA-256: c702c36804de5b14c96e1ac49ee34b4bfe22d87fa3a43635dba8e319746ea431
font_02_sfnt_off0001532a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1532A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1