Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a52ea96ff8b56fe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d3898c15e2ad2bef3471702afae4b828 SHA-1: ab701a34184cfd9bb40c7ef2700a538527618b59 SHA-256: a52ea96ff8b56fe9f250ce97dde4a9d87b31cb3296c50919f8ea4324fb218e71
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF with multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and a specific URL that appears to be a download lure. The presence of embedded URLs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for downloading further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dune+ebook+download PDF link annotation
    • https://shoppingplanet.cityplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56678779234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipayon.com/root/FCKeditor/file/mifonutaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/ladijepixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/26869542725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48845658038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundheit-im-blog.de/userfiles/file/92445429254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r4ufkfgpv8apjg6v4lk9v6m96/pixogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161483ea20c3c7---rabalexuxelatubemosupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/90669543553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/66621984816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af91e023c1---xisapozupefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/wududilinituluwonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12546163117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/wedirimodulibabida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/91072101185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://launensia.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noxupanajota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250c98a8c8f0e47bc5c2a05258ddfae9/kunafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wupixubuxexuvuwaxewawufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ravudirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/xibukuxumimimomulilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/feponavomusogazatife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigerseedindia.com/uploads/kajokuvovalivikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valosagoskincsesbanya.com/upload/file/vivuzudirisudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/zanosaxukitamenipakufan.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_off0000c8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FA 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 7537fbde665fec6c41d542069813d13287487e229c4d696cf62d7649a3478f10
font_02_sfnt_off00010c0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0D 10200 bytes
SHA-256: bfb108ed7c1883ed568502f5fae4a35b7f1cbaae4f15297a27f2d6e286f4fd18