Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a667a3a8797de5ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:31:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7bc8521b54f210b51b328a4561e16443 SHA-1: 0daea9130216889fad70e87467d67a5ae8bc12ee SHA-256: a667a3a8797de5ec1ac9d592c5f583e1316282fa48196f82167a7e037d28bc30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files, many hosted on domains associated with compromised CMS uploads. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme, where users are lured to click on links that lead to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://psychanalyste-gard.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24656487740.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/4426517495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/jezebimulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/58885782643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/ximesapuwupijeromixowoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxurizezobewepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7efe4ec131724b1b03f38ce27a9ebc4b/86409763210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354956a69fc---tetavirijeturivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/60163875444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/fowapigagixawesikanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45879103750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juribajipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/95232785929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/28175141228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326b80506b0---kenilimuputimolorujosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eminenceinc.com/userfiles/file/kusijezuzumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/72185178266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/64145598079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/16534621275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57761025349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/dabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=road+fighter+nesPDF 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_off0000ca16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE228 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 0606c7198396577e7053ac01c1fc2939833bd1ac5d2b0c278dffd6f53fd40545
font_02_sfnt_off000113fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113FB 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 61a038f6727c9eb87b72486d54340a54334f3b798880d72e1f418cacd14b1906