Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3f10d2335cab445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0a3d3dd264e48fc9cf8afda6f2e4dc7c SHA-1: 74703e0c53827d1f9eec0cb406590635a40a1743 SHA-256: a3f10d2335cab4450b56139fbe5c40ed02408b9be38fe337a7e25eb89341840a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a URL with a 'photoshop convert pdf to jpg batch' term implies a lure to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=photoshop+convert+pdf+to+jpg+batch PDF link annotation
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/jojebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/6688422309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/januruzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/vokezilexojegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddc-touggourt.dz/ar/files/lominoforujafazeborumavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideas4mypool.com/userfiles/file/mosakemimavupopisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whewfamily.com/clients/12004/File/14812501115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/65822437875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161024aa994b58---labigiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/52523793926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bd2e61263---52346846375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/medoxafesijade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06c3b58156---zelelunekatezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakaav.com/userfiles/files/11533447716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/foxisuwimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1bcbc215f---fesopabusotudaxubupiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/37983889124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09o63au82acver015sek497unn/86950456355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/xokedevawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609143953fa64---51239139731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c509c078b8c---2558286420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosuraluwomitimovunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b47a14f4f196d3b17687ea7557dbefc/90660561999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0s4geq63jgu8bpir039s875q1/24248275816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/4325604755.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_off0000d3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3ED 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 1621ef71fac3517bcd53e1aab0da95eea3679c122456b1641ae649dc5bb04929
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED68 17664 bytes
SHA-256: bfb4a46a49b559d8125c712f623b39c91e218021ec1392bab1ddc78d7eb77087
font_02_sfnt_off00011b1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1