Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a702445b049b8024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 11:02:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c13162bd52e88740fb999743de689361 SHA-1: f42852dc0814ec38d69aae08744b560d886c8e1e SHA-256: a702445b049b80242516b055f403b09925771cef1b407a168df3ce22eb77a4df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier flagged it with high confidence. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crestviewshopping.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/felis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sungwoo-n.com/userfiles/file/44124530279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatangsongvan.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/28183844193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/tobasumigemijujotumotuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnampte.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/pujixapojiziwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/pajojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/36678880149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/3408917520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/27644645392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marupi.de/UserFiles/File/53234082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/rapunupomupuxipomokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151d70455bf4---kekuxivedalexuxupaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc310b6135---10268472983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/50863292823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rewitex.pl/userfiles/file/kewabene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kunuwenobapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/62871214055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objets.immoweiss.lu/userfiles/files/tuxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/kasosabagub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210908060929_kxunkm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/kipiwukutafusebebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulejevamefudidema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161463433d189a---46905534793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.miotsukushi.or.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelipimokumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fpcofmacon.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jiwutuwova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodivisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=all+words+that+start+with+yPDF 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_off0000b135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB135 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94C 10292 bytes
SHA-256: f56408aa20c7c8eae3ae19e4a2b15f4300666cb0a8e21d4edba8ed2fd1d2046a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A6 15316 bytes
SHA-256: 1e52af052d65da370417656db66d03ff3a79e9da0550cc2c59e81fbe99a3c09e