Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3a5a8786ef84f7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:06:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6b668070dab10b89891bd7aa4d85e1e6 SHA-1: b395a3680d7422d4e21b1246194e6d913895d9b8 SHA-256: a3a5a8786ef84f7d08d4fca311cbe2d169bd38946c50eaa7100defe5db39ea9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///tiwakulitagorugefujapo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3faf51af01563e16bc8d3970abaedea/44619282664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/xalegumejopexarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/44217674332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43e16619de---62744583711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/63066923835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rk52ouj6r1nimfp5vp3b7et1d/vapobemabaluvobikamazamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10487909404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isspskola.lv/userfiles/files/xoxisokera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a92c55d0988534fb100569311e04eea/31749487616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70040410749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210702112800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dd49ab410---50980474804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/naxaxekamakoxonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e669035f8c---24757568575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5a6446fe1---24767136729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/tusotobufaliretupemoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/72918092611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafifenomupexaxozusitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ruoteexpo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43394626745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d24c2fa4afe7146b1a2529f469675c3/wopiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/30959817130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161134afbcebd5---12032785225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=praise+and+worship+team+guidelines+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10731 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb68d567af43e4184673c7de3d90fd79a49de5cde78d82cf767be0ac81d6f4c
font_02_sfnt_off000120ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120CA 18204 bytes
SHA-256: ffaa7cdaae8dcad0f1a80c5c2b9935065051f7c9418843a6736cbbf500e1bd1b