Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c3df9950d501877…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:15:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: db0d40068af8c5ebf3d6679db761afdd SHA-1: 0a35e52b4b506b904491585358c141e8ec38a468 SHA-256: 0c3df9950d501877e9db26b74f3bc53ea555f8eead06b74ae4c8eb238bd87ccc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination or spread malicious links across multiple disposable hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=game+of+thrones+putlocker PDF link annotation
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/59452311836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451fd2ea115---43753460764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearonlaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gutemulokufulodezixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea29361e66eddbddf04b6dde0b400e0/22163012308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/xagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/23877015504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenglobepms.com/uploads/kenosukowigininid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/87887747391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resicolor.com/upload/files/noxetidobirotagafakubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/wewufujegolasigojiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326a90e504f---82575613582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufafixerirodidituvuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/subofulavunafusulokino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/zisamimanalunudigekisupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinaltd.ru/images/file/pidejixugavusozobeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitbolivia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55532236835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/63115725271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79367790642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b909bf805d3ab2952a2e2e82fcb53f/190475808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrotria.altervista.org/areap/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69402018823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614147b2d4cd9---2677640225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011c72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C72 19660 bytes
SHA-256: d0e951cd7b39d60d7fbb7adb97594297a0d8b3e03295cb5d86e6b0a74da0c53f
font_01_sfnt_off00014f84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001679b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1679B 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 08654720a5f94b30af55b6037e4fcab3b75b0906f8d251ed909087dfa89a11d3