Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a364b810cc3f12c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:13:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fb860ade129b524114121fe39047a4df SHA-1: 181f138fbdc8dd07c198e0ef6301bc9931981121 SHA-256: a364b810cc3f12c3b5d41dea361c35459cd20360c92aaf2c60f300443b6db7ae
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'urgency lure' heuristic further support this, as the document likely attempts to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://52963566.com/upload/file/202109140349348855.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/dokikenezikomafapuseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/11982919922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/35726436266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70f1e11a18c401e60bbd033222f90313/giwoxikixusefixabinanifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/97714240485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/kewadudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/jubugiwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/55929363634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/vinutaxopuvorawijesatixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///vufokunodilefurabasosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/58092366476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avphunter.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teluwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ff405ed40---85934419737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://105chers.netsociality.com/upload/files/taduzubunibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/fefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350b69270f0---96928113070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/bazovivururifapijipedofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/zumoninepitajojapemuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/68982918483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/morotevobebabupukiwumozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/67230088636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnizone.com/userfiles/file/menanagibezipevevubibibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd03a19db4---81937582289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=robux+code+promoPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/55859720074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e347.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE347 18488 bytes
SHA-256: cefb36d7971bba18a1bceb49d602bdd35890a8d42b6aaf10b2c46205706354f9
font_01_sfnt_off00011409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11409 10392 bytes
SHA-256: c0613cb5bb641652e371c233f76beacf7e7568571141b8744eaead87d9dc2bf4
font_02_sfnt_off00012b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1