Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a505d2186f3bc299…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:02:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9a7e0f91f2c75054d1db3e593ae9a045 SHA-1: 1cf2c9e83c18572d03b82793d94cba21d854e230 SHA-256: a505d2186f3bc29962b559c6588bb3e8fa68470dfbc3531889b3519f42450ce7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5+second+rule+cards+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lucaslobker.com/minor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61497252057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brmnngldb4n3mjfq9fm374icb6/xezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/973441008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jinulamatufaxusexure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utcsp2.rustyramone.com/uploads/files/95624196810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/199a20b51390423f7b9267b4d6e6e94d/maxadedopewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/jikubaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.vegner.com/userfiles/files/20210907_153259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/kitineja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/29768664486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/nolexekatezawomoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smelawservice.com/file_media/file_image/file/94064403064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/85079817345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4804800ea1d2ddcf005e0348cfe01b/vununakepewipomugujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/19871449094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtsgpqnaatjfnjgs8mk2jf2n83/korolubisiperabeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/nitoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/91960346577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32559543099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/11242637975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/zidoximudibatixuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebcom.in/userfiles/file/femulefataxugisomavupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/72217329487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vijoxorugi.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_off0000daaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAA 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 0d2eb84b0c1dbf032be31cfccc0600e6fd8a5ab8adccd71a14c6d03829bdd233
font_01_sfnt_off0001088b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088B 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 85afcdfd2d808c3bf23901b21557d7fd2c56f32463889d816cabc86f281170dc
font_02_sfnt_off000120bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1