Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a392a945df4563ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:06:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 24c537615cd6091929d1b04385edd4b1 SHA-1: ce08f097e7a6fe9f2e4efe9a9f56e77bbb64cbff SHA-256: a392a945df4563ac049442d6b3d89386978109bd9c04b916ee2ba4d3dc88cd80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points to an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+credit+card+numbers+with+money+on+them+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/44700533261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210901051148799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuliguretawiliwizexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzmansporzeminkaplama.com/resimler/files/vukutaditubumaravebajivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssvacancy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugusiranugapinojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33329839067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/zajewadirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikdercollegeofpharmacy.com/scp/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/32000832000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/16039339596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallorcaboom.com/res/wysiwyg/file/lakasizugujujabedowekozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f234b094f---86714856984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jimawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad50c3e691---65516271139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18899139071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/tejajeviponojezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/39426221463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/bubaxopufupeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c97c3914488329167bd7beccef8254cd/jizasixujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog/file/voveriguviferepajoxugimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/mexeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613655d095d54---romiperotewijewuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/7764490678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81300404413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/7718122669.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_off0000dbc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC7 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 022a2f6773157cf0b11cee34fb628aead3f5a77fbc0ab8a56ae5346960dcaf2a
font_01_sfnt_off000108d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EB 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 097cef6d916ad0bb0061c11d4e0d7686d0884e2f540ec866736d4d236035348b