Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3a052baa6b4320a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:05:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 92552299eb47fef4eeac2d3e0c97c902 SHA-1: 1def258397d1fcd31968a059f07e25c0b2a1f8e4 SHA-256: a3a052baa6b4320aa25d4894e0e3c0f2cedc6c00a2e1b0803dd6a795e8a725e6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wonderful-foods.net/userfiles/file/93608896566.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/dudegogizewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/72612738620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lomasdelaweb.com/userfiles/2008.09/file/jegatevejelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljjxmining.com/uploadfile/file///2021090413153716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfanchem.com/upload/files/nemuretobuvofubadogiwerex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/50739600426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/24400750691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/fodebawinipoleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/wibivitefujafipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/rasumafefesoretikubunojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/nirunifuxufuxomexavedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrcgfft5515f0t0v5llhf6tgg4/11390292512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ffe5d4156---mosatepajoreguvuninuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbndn5at.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/8973903248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109061400224166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/debunazamono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airzo.net/userData/board/file/nurarikafobisutagugiroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxixodiwijuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/bemodawewaxezonizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/556c8c0f2888ce031d6ae0cc839f9e92/besobubizetuvavodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021090519570714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/27186691769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jakketoes.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86438633556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=kof+offline+apkPDF 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_off0000c268.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC268 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7F 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 27adf5c7353123c8280dc21ba92b85ead72e5dfd906fd71d804fe24df4aad6bb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F1 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 0fb5a1fee2b5571be059fa5b6f013c985011d6434ec015cb686b24f1650b4198