Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3a9377aec99ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:58:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8d2f10b84e6d410a9ea02c6c590e2657 SHA-1: f0845bb95c4968f7016d27feaad9f302741feb5e SHA-256: ca3a9377aec99ab091c85b9d164fe050c0d21aa83380be60940f439af608ac44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+tubemate+2021
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/77907422382.pdf
    • https://laptoptranganh.com/data/dulieu/files/85317886385.pdf
    • http://psychologadamczak.pl/userfiles/file/faxuwopeje.pdf
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/52280157700.pdf
    • https://purmoradiatoriai.lt/images/files/72960622023.pdf
    • http://ortosprendimai.lt/userfiles/file/20406426237.pdf
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/rivepibor.pdf
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tixuzezo.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e316df490---lodopot.pdf
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/sawugas.pdf
    • https://chowdhurytourism.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikuziwadalus.pdf
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/nexeja.pdf
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210906005936-44888537944.pdf
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5a7a57cc6879a0edd6966be6e730920/58126102559.pdf
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/97228914474.pdf
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/bimuvefuxaji.pdf
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/80195097008.pdf
    • http://mydreamtuscanwedding.com/editor_up/mipegaramikusejavagapow.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc805a8518---bijadowetexil.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eca71c37c9---17950811534.pdf
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/vusepuxesepisazatubigasar.pdf
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/jadakumezoxijirame.pdf
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/mowofewamofuleput.pdf
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/94309161862.pdf
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/sakabuxonep.pdf
    • 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_off0000d16b.bin
910160d1518141fecb9e363a384f7b5e42d66528e1f41baf83d97ffde692ddc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16B 17732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb0.bin
ff0ff57daa5834968b483091d2ad281d7162e9ef5617b4a43ee08a8d6cf4d274
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB0 10668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011740.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11740 16792 bytes