Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3d92cf87cfecca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 13:25:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4ad44ba33248161d3660f0d0da3df5ba SHA-1: a78550f07c100cd840c6d69afa783568d8ec0123 SHA-256: a3d92cf87cfecca8ed184c68df0ea434783b977cc239495a9e108c192abd137b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or host malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/timege.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777f3c33ab0---juzivotulobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90389532fc---ritaxovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/7547755710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/10385985719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/1578463242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lununujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b642efb8ffc---90680018064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabenorinopelufalolika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abca1a232f7---52283126106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe21f78540---sopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b113a88350---17606140645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084137c76f76---kofaforizuxelixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/51141460905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8de32b5776---39736554363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/dizawoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/posuxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9929bc017848e76beb5422c467b584dc/wivavadelotirulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/8846038380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/79693565871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/32084182604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b366df128---58666538956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750cc8e9bfa1705311dd207b2da3d598/getifojuwunenisipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+cellulosePDF 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_off0000f001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF001 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 59b16cf9967782cc8f03578101f0421626d56e5b085b2a3029f5006867e13803
font_01_sfnt_off00011962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11962 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 7219863322087d4d037b8e060d316e67d1b19c0cdf702993941dbfee12b8734b
font_02_sfnt_off00013082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13082 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1