Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a370821ae91040d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b85418bebc2cd480f09bf526c73fca72 SHA-1: 12d5618f1f19f04ef53ec123e71467e23d75453e SHA-256: a370821ae91040d6d9d8c641d1104fadd2c029a6ff89c1d5b48b019382e8d0cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and UTM parameters in some URLs further supports the phishing lure attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/lemamamavutun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lddurd3pbirfip3s7ai2f9thl3/83616231215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/gesupezorafugurazasujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160db7a36e6520---xilorovidewosiluxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/nekeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210618002534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc693688e492bb4b1128e7e4c39f3168/gumuguzarakupeguzizuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/126128443760b8535b3944f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b6abc1f40---7457716347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/55440185396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/68749940012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/14101578195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d541568e01---vodenivijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/010d2eb19a4aafdda5e6d2c53d494f08/20422080502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907d66b0419---kizamenelazetiwusapolebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608082062f8f9---62806041415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcce79272b---11667501163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9cb73ce3ff8bc7ee06552fc54cca9e3/bopibimavenujexife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34c24afea8---wozeduvowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/zopugogufinuvixigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/86736141028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c093b250acdda3652fbadc16ac029cbb/kikopowatozogitorimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skq5r4bvou5koljvv2avd0kibv/39955461837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/16074447071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/luzolulananaxodepawumonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/68856631065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/8325499726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/26966613955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=victorious+free+streamingPDF 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_off00010ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD2 18080 bytes
SHA-256: e0f0edc213644dcc3ea7d6b94a62160a0c96a366788559bb23b0463807056f50
font_01_sfnt_off000139f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F0 10704 bytes
SHA-256: ab4d79b232e5d637198f690048190373d3fbe51c694dccae4ebfc631d95ee7dc
font_02_sfnt_off00015295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15295 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1