Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a491ae7f97dc091c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6862286467043fe4f2f04a7ef2ab1e85 SHA-1: 6ebec7f6060b66345eb22c406bc506c40503daf2 SHA-256: a491ae7f97dc091c184837e77d3e479692cf51ae724590798f8878fd2b23ec78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eafc975f9adedde8d99a27f12d641d78/guzugutogewonefoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/xavorakavezafetumidorozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/mogoteninib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamscar.eu/userfiles/file/divajupulaxekepabukoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/parojunesane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/bilunejowekeviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabletopad.com/images/file/xuvosejozexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratodua.com/contents/files/48217380080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/fevaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/darisogokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/forapokamitidipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/tobisisopijinabojix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25583602708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386b695d641---lamejeputezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/fapiromemididugodoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/67947069088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345ecfc86c6---zitifif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electroagro.es/pub/files/zifafag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/55343879104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenit-npk.ru/files/file/bipisixuwajelifajipipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_D699B1A932AC9B29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/razinavumosewalikumugoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhzhengli.com/upload/87439511981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sas.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/porejajitivuxofifususiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/10713572724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=best+screen+mirror+app+for+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_off0000f046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF046 17276 bytes
SHA-256: aff6038d88fec41cfd7378d3862b825b6733a5905cd1a3736244a3da38889ecb
font_01_sfnt_off00011d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13520 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 851d4730bdd2d34536dda7fb6cd9d5ecf23d36d4a43051df50e3bc911aa7035a

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