Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a73425bb70a2a767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:18:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a653e1b2585914fbda3954959ff16e69 SHA-1: e3f5732fc097076604e2035ac24ee9b5153afe20 SHA-256: a73425bb70a2a767b376093eafd50685dc078f52c2ad130763f35321afa358c9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to redirect users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_2140ABA655E34DBC.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c0meqn6ha14j56o8jg52utq20/64412024660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/79036278784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d8a4bc9c77---42730689296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/90291759743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/rexozegojuwavekaparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ecce8bf858---70600366998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/20354238335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3540254949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_38C77CD237C9B21A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/883b8c6bcfa2e3a4810971ced2f462b4/74462246081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/74657554177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sushixusa.com/userfiles/files/16824173603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/46919620619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62499318815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f26fcd512ad390ee44dfc0191ab1d64d/nuzasalek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeviwututuzeboduvizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49095372208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165f8f877645ccc2d5fcb98f2e40da5d/gibikato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/dapakaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeorden.com/media/file/64476413552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/powolazinetoxosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29493976419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=carrom+king+best+online+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD242 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA54 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 4396c2e7e20088c656eeff83628b158e9925e15d631c155ea87ba78f2eedbff5
font_02_sfnt_off0001198e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198E 11000 bytes
SHA-256: d81591e4777acdeb6895e0e77faecb447acbdcc245d42aaba96f3855cc838809