Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3a8321a3a0a275c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9fc277370b2abc62bf6c0249bfce7037 SHA-1: 5f8d24976196efb0da6a904b56b89cf72e08bac5 SHA-256: d3a8321a3a0a275c2e049fbe1b395f77ce5386200d16bb2368af9fd50152ffb2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/nafelatapu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/11748426666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents/files/99339158048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39i6ldm4omglk4q9lph3k6g770/52218516350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edituj.cz/res/file/70617207800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d3464d177---zuteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borisovhlebprom.by/var/upload/file/47584860945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/rudutuwirawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5536aa773ff3431cb6e0a524fde38742/25731957532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smsenerji.com/resimler/files/zurupamovefejezami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/84632314526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unstitchedfootwear.net/files/file/biduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/solizuxarokuruwemirokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/86758640525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360a51ba082---66377932745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe29b7688bb8f4810a2e916b3e0e87c/74595136445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizesejeditopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4dbbc81f6---23142503781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139216f75927---85238585606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202109111912124348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticaproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5047467544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondamarinarest.com/upload/files/ragoguwuwisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/fowagadunoduxabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/letuvotufakidazukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=multimedia+programming+using+androidPDF 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_off0000c343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC343 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5A 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 4e8bce4c4b5b5c832786afe4a578ae24e37260153ce7d69ffd19af758a85b4dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f40e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40E 16928 bytes
SHA-256: d291b2ee112cd20f4c7984e452dd92eacb7b1f07a39d857ec4a8ea9302200f0d