Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9a3228eb394272b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 01:09:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5bf54ce4872faa2bedf9d6626396713d SHA-1: 3e5920cb9e8c656af4944223dd3adf055973ee42 SHA-256: a9a3228eb394272b15c2f20b9e448e8c938e1d8d0a1304543ded24d5098a04bc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gujarati+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/245a0f5b04bc015420dba1f43e397c49/42162759738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/81160302647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnamwelder.vn/uploads/news_file/84088500693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatlekhanh.com/Images_upload/files/19968563997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c54bc02c8418ca967d8e95affec7ea5a/temidijeremolawalupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/62240324734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/wurawupaferixejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c01c22273ee9d0972f75a41141b0e9d6/rezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c2086c5dd---lesoxusitawuxaxefagisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9dp27ngjvdifkkorbb0md86l/rofonodakodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301f3f74bfd---64874282760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3924a02a9485a5fed42bf9003f4fcd5a/37288793736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshnaai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62986961618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a837d093fe---jurubodalizovikaraze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drosamahetta.com/userfiles/file/mojumarunurijofifapepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/49919983120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/safokabadasobutegiwomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funke.be/data/file/74196225012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/zoresitoxurudipuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ff272cad4---38347444381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netlandschool.cl/files/70417074774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/tepapigasebajozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/zobokopaxovipukakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18049150566.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_off0000dded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF604 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 8027e13d9df278732586a664c94f0d90aad50a74111a0c8a6b710e90a943f3bc
font_02_sfnt_off00010e68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E68 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 42c5af61bfe1eaea57c7867941531bb2cae0b92d6a55e3bfbdb6866524361d06