Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a402364f832dce1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6ba5445789b9c50e6696227d4468f539 SHA-1: ebeddcb7a0f32c4a59887f66b9369a1d1c1148a1 SHA-256: a402364f832dce1dae316b815ce9e222ed69a9c67bf35ec65ff4a81b5399d601
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple domains, some of which appear to be compromised or disposable, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/pomulijupigi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62280410667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/58088547542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/56930568337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b4699832a---lujezabatozesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/13525970773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91846115715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/kimubisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/32449821152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/66204987549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preprod.app-nomads.com/ugecam/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82997283904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/zoxafikapeparupeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/27299687128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bbb8ec5051b5ca0aea9e9e91a479b54/75080451366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/pulugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a21e9c5013---63097007565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e2deedffd4fad204025fc123b02c066/844238082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/tasizivorolida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/sitadoluguxelixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/zijezozurepuzital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/12872205255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+odin+androidPDF 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_off0000e2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DA 10160 bytes
SHA-256: e2e4dfb5b11d4a85b2a32baa6e18d0cfd1d491c071aa97d3f4f72c84cf23e9c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF986 19156 bytes
SHA-256: 1044b9b1cd087647425d3f3a21dec578fa74292b4af3d19544051f629f693374
font_02_sfnt_off00012b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1