Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a842dce48e7a4858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 09:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 949afb2390f7cc18eaed0ff3f8164827 SHA-1: da63a00b434ecbbf9413c751692ba9d06d3d9de1 SHA-256: a842dce48e7a485877855712054394bb57d394d0cadf8620f6bc80d5b1c36dd1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm and potentially a QR code lure, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to external, possibly compromised, sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports the attack pattern of luring users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+qr+code+scanner PDF link annotation
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7919294808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/87583249956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/21387134998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/56355090072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenturamotivace.cz/uploadfiles/file/juposuladafulowuneluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/14309935439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614225d2a8215---6710162528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gs5g8a57bqhh99hse3b4050fn0/51142660610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/17435176852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b154bb4294---wozafigabasumezawuzixare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/63900600440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatkade.com/basefile/eghamatkadecom/files/2184604154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/29047202060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/pevovotazulosovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/xumunupiwuwexonosutobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a8ae86351---13545813265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/80850831466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janjoling.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30431765675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/taditepafuguxogagoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helices-evra.com/userfiles/file/jofavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303dee622b1---pomogupanivade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dglytbt.com/upfolder/e/files/20210907103451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb32ea187d---jerupurazuxuzumibujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/zigebedoxigajofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/divimeworopaxobo.pdfIn 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
    • 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_off0000dbe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE5 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 186a95290c656aaa5b31a64e1dbed3140ce20b807cf6bc474b8b3384bc64a5d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C4 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 480d19efcd54fa98d152bf193ffadfebd03d6c47c4ab515b75936ad419fdb209
font_02_sfnt_off00012331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12331 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1