Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3cf7fca2d9acc1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:57:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bbf49da10d2ec3e7d93c575d05759a98 SHA-1: 64d30638eb2d850e3172c8b851bf9a7d9113393d SHA-256: a3cf7fca2d9acc1e65ef69794aedbb454338c3181acd3ca5c1af7fc4c6c5335d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to phishing or malware sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9681

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 http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/bidobipiwitomawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuruno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/170089264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/kifosemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/17178030762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/vewabixufefefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s97mmkekjbuokuunkm2pje6qiq/futuzojejasado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc87d8f192---vugobamefenulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvmdv6joosf4ldest6s34aqj5t/xonijalodek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/tobezogopotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21adc71ff4cfd5b6d156d03fa0f4eebc/63058267512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1108c2293cc3752fe94b9042b5492798/10197525526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3912b0aad2ed7057d492d7c1bd3265c/59052984614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/83345498495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/xositofumusirugeloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnegc0neq3ke8idh7gi6nsr176/kepofinelutogeral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/nujolimesukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyerstitleescrow.com/clients/9/9b/9b7cfcecb5e5abb6b877b2b1d59b4eb1/File/kawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607479b166849---masoredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/sasufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3d6670d20---32550519757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/sexosugazanateboluwefopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/morupofepavagamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60efb5d331bb8fe2d65a99d1b453f93/pumuxezobifogupigogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aea0e211d7---mukefakazuxufejaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/72647674190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0qophr4cqrobm62hp90i9rqor/buwenatigafisojonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=english+phrases+in+use+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000120c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C4 10644 bytes
SHA-256: fab3f47be73b42c7db22835c995a1f594d32c1598079a1fc30dddc242b3eafac
font_02_sfnt_off000138bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138BC 6520 bytes
SHA-256: 55ab5d8a0047c6cd013b768c3e482a14978b17e133490a7f55b0ec4b546752f5
font_03_sfnt_off00014f39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F39 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 672740fd2c7993aa2382b387967cf502fdf5193e637ad9a66793b6ae8d766042