Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a960c189207130c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-30 22:00:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa61905fceaa1ac5742fc2171f671b5b SHA-1: 2c53a50c7aec09a5358c20ec2a796949f73db8b4 SHA-256: a960c189207130c379b7bbe0194fad5d621758059edf252e3e7f6e7cf26c6470
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware or redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed for user deception.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53772794941.pdf
    • https://phatgiaolongan.com/upload/ckupload/files/42200743074.pdf
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/guwelomanomumeburo.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab11a1f34d7bd8b801fbda0c1e997da/9429078559.pdf
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/vaxigugepovududukalitirad.pdf
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142693e248db---21086648180.pdf
    • http://studioesflores.pl/obrazy/file/vovewepowavifeje.pdf
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c7a33155813980e0263ed7d3676fa48/89454593753.pdf
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210907032040.pdf
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91980301807.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613afd2bd81da---xiduzanetogudowiziraxilo.pdf
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/19812233974.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386d88ecaeb---gigonijev.pdf
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20211001004741.pdf
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/29012455666.pdf
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/leleborirajatuka.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/76125808567.pdf
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/83986761057.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145d3d944da1---94145158083.pdf
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/xukedodo.pdf
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/45496683131.pdf
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/78647967028.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=material+design+guide
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c553.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC553 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd65.bin
c0be21e496c3616cbe6ebd1c0bff0b667e7f9ad894f1857296836ec37fbdf3ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD65 18068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010bf2.bin
4377a3bc79478d9bdf1fd33c99c88e4b4b5ebd1621f9c96141292e2d4e7462ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF2 10396 bytes