Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c2246fa283fdba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5ae5df6751a9c4fcdf4faaadd0e80dd2 SHA-1: de3f0ab42e6d77b0299bc347225e4d4bc97e51c1 SHA-256: a7c2246fa283fdba4aa1b95b43422b0fb9847dd6dc7cc666eb20aa3caad03299
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users away from the initial document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/tomuvotarexesufo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/sudenepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tio5572vensdcjmfo4rfdh8mi8/61108026596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f394ce055857eef1822da9bb4db262ad/petiramogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/35113052442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/gawakuwitijozava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a348abc7c3b---bewesusozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n74cbbcf0ackmso5cuqgh9thrn/47685003448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82299946448668a7a1b21adf06593ffe/wasuviwifisefufabosarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/95502014192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fcu1vorn8ckmv46i39b3g0ute/gapofamekitatujuveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/90569459479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f03341d2de05ddfd60a1be1e9d9f4ec/32525307735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/tipudosiwafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f736a65d500---16910731332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/55066241751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210825135719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/62889193758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64217545953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074062eb8a61---vedubukijuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/zovekatadikoralitefizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/nobovapebikerowape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/wuxusakavewegunabodifibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+unblock+someone+on+hotmailPDF link annotation
    • https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=848333&s=144515b557f3ef2e76beffa66807b8ab&p=60687In 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
    • https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=848333&s=144515b557f3ef2e76beffa66807b8ab&p=60687In 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_off0000dc39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC39 18500 bytes
SHA-256: 012e1e9223a4d07daf3e27beb9af08008031b712454418d16ec2f7910846cc04
font_01_sfnt_off00010c38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001244f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244F 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 226ac336b1ce4580f23e817bb223861b2f351c48da964435af7dff8570558261