Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a81b3722a39d74c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-10-14 11:44:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9dedf6c97c8eaf6757144279493f99de SHA-1: 5e3f994b8f3c5f932edfb7bf2d50c4bd9035cec0 SHA-256: a81b3722a39d74c714a57fab0bfed919f0e2addc1937a55471cc5eedaac6a181
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the document likely serving as a lure to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/51685799536.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/komanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.otevrenysklep.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44225029740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89614981209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/16010944770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/76357654006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161660618f191e---38192493177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/81343896416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jodhpurheritagewalk.com/images/file/lorekaxubuzirizowoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1f3f9457a---xozufonaxovameli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcubezpieczenia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/72397592720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafiposupenixepidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/68091455502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapawaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecpa.fr/uploaded/file/dofuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/banitijeben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tadereginotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152a3b5b11b7---24025880913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/39101643269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d2e946ab6a089ea542e1d2f8bdf9d6/taladipibuxozifugolikole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/donuxetaboweki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/50397438078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chorland-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/dowokunanedebivofofidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/TxADE9PCSUw/uplcv?utm_term=substituting+margarine+for+butter+in+bakingPDF 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_off0000ef35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF35 19160 bytes
SHA-256: fa4fc2a51b93cb71a046016ca7c40338b3b82c74c5434b21f43a8dd969751ece
font_01_sfnt_off0001216c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13983 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 078ef43311f1b5178d3c4b23a629a69f15c2517430016e8a7e00664f96eaf33e