Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a994dd83069113ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fa15e2b97e18bf47c8e6249dad6f9d7b SHA-1: 153a9723d56667e5e80031805b40816241d4f76c SHA-256: a994dd83069113ea8b6befd616e289aeb0316eb2ba236f04a07e0fa82be026ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/49818668432.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fukaofoods.tw/uploads/files/202108180438221805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20po6hfa2b0l1tfhlsu074jm1/nirafawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e8e174a90b67cda619269fdcb4d169/zasuvunasoguborunazesagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/37391350466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/53078430726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/1795165341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/3160210233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/guwaresivefekarijobojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-18/20210618082650724063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/5088194180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/475ffacc93007360d05106ca171c38e1/kipimefazudavonukaxupenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/xukaxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6789de018---motoloxogigutefitikizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/kanovatekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/zorojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kag.fr/userfiles/file/32122546516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cabda61ef9155ffb37cf103e5ce1d4d7/xebudopakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/wupezonofotinurami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fea9e199d---kobega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/mevavajosudebaditijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606de188905b6---gezizuzobefejafajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/bipizipikuwikejexabixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/difulojidokexomenarumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/betifunawijuvobizevejixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=short+motivational+speeches+for+students+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_off0000c0d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D7 15844 bytes
SHA-256: 8f445a7b80700c17e781b3b4645f6bfd276a6040dbc5c68f3892a90474fa1428
font_01_sfnt_off0000e91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91F 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 4511414e50109033a2be236526973ebe885328de41f9bc8149a8e235acf3ab83
font_02_sfnt_off000102e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1