Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3a9a38b78325855…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 378a56649f80d3e125198017f61e3403 SHA-1: 244a0caaee838baae22826a48b62d8474b56418c SHA-256: d3a9a38b783258559b48ea5d81ab3f5dad4d582e7de07b4b8c4e8a85fbff6c16
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan distribution attempt. Numerous heuristics indicate the presence of external links, including those pointing to compromised CMS uploads and IP addresses, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document's structure and embedded links strongly suggest it is designed to exploit users into visiting these sites, likely to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wonder+woman+2020+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/8874291667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4331c95f7e5e51bf6cc243c53d54e0e/2963411516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/98019068038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/34898874115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/63108864354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/pomokunogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e2233fb1b---vibepemuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/87554839710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ist-lb1.istanajp.com/contents/files/zegaxopijedotetuvozizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.eu/userfiles/file/sojugedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7700767042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9bfcd642e---xosarabudupotowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anaja-inter.org/public/file/38980324734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/diladobomoletizozofobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/44834582100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kerupajameriwirefifenibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/30937600357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomedicoveterinariobellucci.eu/userfiles/files/17625491967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibasomurakoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/ruvolodanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/35393982796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krajkarka.cz/userfiles/file/rikevozeliwefawapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristaldicarlo.com/userfiles/file/gagiduzomurutaketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralujulujajelaf.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_off0000e960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE960 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 7e5b214060703c75a6c0d4db826659980e017d8ea3a3cf6a3ad1cc0f95915283
font_01_sfnt_off0001182f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13046 10572 bytes
SHA-256: f3b9d6e15291a12b2c4d42e132970c04a558654c2f6044fb7ef1a9b15ee775ee