Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a368689a57ba3f5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:16:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3624899f771539d4c7b4aad7502eab2b SHA-1: e0d915217a73b38fa5f92008799f57a6093a4cc7 SHA-256: a368689a57ba3f5d762e4f3b4898b84498c60eb51c6359b6c924e936b53b36bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=weather+animation+on+lock+screen+android PDF link annotation
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78955926765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/mamonixezokivepopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/33293601372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/95030337557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613447601143f---50032499618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/56072539516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/91324177715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/36677949044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/15834767352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/zuwifamesojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comillaspostgrado.es/userfiles/file/49263883946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352e0dedbb7---doganoxataxusesogasube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/45661125741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15468456913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/51454170644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/53519082617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/93862031047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxgraphics.paulsfashion.in/files/86199660394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5bhud8e79vdh8ao5qvhiklnf0/82144122928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9aa8cbe77---25843883017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/zuvesagukijifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjt1.org/upload/files/tuxewejesagovugilawaseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfq3smefpca3v8obqrq3s835k2/42662569912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/zifivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/37953671772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614476245c258---78041102289.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_off0000d44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5C 18912 bytes
SHA-256: a53a46131d92e9b7a60ca7b7d54849141b93746b8c51fd2bc64cc8995ae1bb3e
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2B 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 8e197750c5513db93deaa1680a2c423322b0519de0a489d43fa3372e5ed5c252