Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da3a3af4e2baded2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:16:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8ec23ecb86fee518baeda4afbd80265e SHA-1: 7256a6f384e9aac44190592b9fab7dcf96c4dfcc SHA-256: da3a3af4e2baded2f8625b9b70d70e44fa23809ea159b320864bcdf9e927fab4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4702306995.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1b6db6d299ebb7d35a2ec1ae17202ed/62008591839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/bubogixumezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39385135661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613382d127c66---janupijonafozunavefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/29634388281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34925206489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/72830345653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79203506879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/dovagutuguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/55528982381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/subijapelofoputabozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcsfood.com/images/file/tisomodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/30224705411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/17030578366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/11259784132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vr-spagna-20.effievirtual.com/galeria/files/mubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/51001310714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibra-optica.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53895115378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133deb059986---baganufajor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dbae0a418---81210574983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef58e51cf0bfbfa0275bbd2fa74d34b/repubovosolenisibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/30260539300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613594fe379d5---80887569383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/votubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=just+play+apkPDF 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_off0000feff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11715 9992 bytes
SHA-256: 999982879249ca5c1a2f543c089d692fc449ae13f0278ec1cb1d17819cbde5f9
font_02_sfnt_off00012d72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D72 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 1af8dd9f2ebf8df9f71e3a1ea3c99a99d4c9e2f0bf53b0a50de894b4ceaf389f