Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9a3037771885218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:51:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a8e15b3b4a418b502da11595e7bec5f3 SHA-1: 51896996478c9c7dcc31f77073dd272297caa22a SHA-256: a9a30377718852187007a48ddca8d9838062d27e4d65279e17ade271830e89e8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm pointing to potentially compromised domains and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wapasovibadoruw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/68651797228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/moxovoxufonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/13633721845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/55277214013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edmo-cars.nl/images/file/3218578037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/bonusitafimifafodafelorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transportdiverse.com/uploads/files/97485535619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basse-normandie.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43314625464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/jozake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/lomuruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/zoregoxepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/labagozojewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbd4b8ef4c---89409535041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/rixefuporapidexogagonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44681853014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94499182554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/41829081425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zagawaxafulufumeretewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce16d60e79---kajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/74868619959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbad2a3920---bobonuvudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/tebavubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senvietsystem.com/ckeditor/upload/files/fobitosebuxojuzuwojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=structure+of+monocot+and+dicot+stemPDF 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_off0000b76c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB76C 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 9a08d4590c6d73350b9b62df4d596919a92eb1f3f793c6d8c4d66880ffd60dbb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD033 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE845 15692 bytes
SHA-256: 916e5f3ed4e085b421b71d8164b7cbc6c0e399e6ccc4ace16d704d891c447e5b