Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de3a95d74d78b046…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:13:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 46e0c6364a4f2a32228a81f5478c8a75 SHA-1: 476d7d2a2026d25399c6d317d7fa7a684fd8dbaf SHA-256: de3a95d74d78b04694ccfba61441e6d0f4ee9e855c19b53b96ad2de147206ebb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the PDF is used to distribute or host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://archielectronics.com/userfiles/files/2501845212.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/zakosezekademomapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/nitediwowibilofosujenepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/gijidupopuwebotiloganip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139535f3f1da---57346788175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/57758817366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harekatmemuru.com/images/Media/files/ganewekawexedugikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0ddcf22f2d1f07fbd9876845c0d9902/89273480099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleitalypizzany.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fugojifugotaminezategili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/rizadoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wutikitikovusemoruduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/20219388262458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/luzebomafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/52012723954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincitydata.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/29968663982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db00538f4a48b9b4891eea5fa77004d1/61305750664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dreamstoreonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5851012233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1631394269sodutewoledilelafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/1234178340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16123735337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/lekodinesirologoxirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeusjtu.pretty-match.com/upload/files/21603961107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=american+english+file+free+download+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_off0000afc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFC7 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 169c4502f06c69a135900d103eb76dd36a815326d3a78c7a1f32f4fe47d5c236
font_01_sfnt_off0000c915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC915 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE127 15640 bytes
SHA-256: 285d804c92dcf6620d116ab442a6b163c376fb3033943a50d73158eede53ea56