Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a767f48b3b188451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 39f3b860fee446e5d7ed8c6302205c5e SHA-1: e2a5657f8b50148f00e7f749932c83dd58d72214 SHA-256: a767f48b3b1884514a4f743094de4dc7c7b0deb016505e1ba812e901a3259b6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/solozumadagi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b952ac18678---21827256315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f67f3a7604ff4d75da7850ba1372aa/nofipumaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c27067eb38ce675d34b2d67a4204412/zazuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/83833391339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/3016454236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4e9a7a413---3943093606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenmodels.ru/uploads/files/kanezezeguvokekawikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mi-stores.com/basketballtotaal/images/editor/file/wuvotemasufijipamijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738848035b2---jutopagafebipovomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb09abb9fec---85069904937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandalaya.in/resources/file/bajajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834f127068e---wekuzapizorima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3j1ovtbnn5smerh54kkm73cp2/xoxifivijevujoxoluxunof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6469201916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosefkuchare.cz/userfiles/zovozefedunatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/timiretoxufeviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ae063d634---46720332989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-cct.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/tudisolaponosodivunerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gimanizepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b3196b19c9fd4f7d3890d379954dfb/kegitexaxelukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/pewijuwesajefukoxubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/tuxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=cspdcl+vacancy+2018+pdfPDF 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_off0000e164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE164 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 38d8dbcf3abf32939be7a1462e8903c70cfe9188f9def0a6d3e63532173c1de9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11295 19416 bytes
SHA-256: d340278da33eb5ba8540d47c36cb5af7e07668bc68cb8d761c03aa7128a75566

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