Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e3dde336c9ac9d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 89e07d4353546fef33dced119fbf2977 SHA-1: d674ba13e399df41b5c94b1af61f67174272e4ae SHA-256: 0e3dde336c9ac9d9a8a67e583ebce597d47e55180a7e7b1cb75ee3a25752d3c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains multiple embedded URLs that point to various websites, some of which are identified as link farms on potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/82627923276.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/97348705550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373e814d679---vulutiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/88609246771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/36922095298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/lunaxezarusapik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/96400470368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/mifabekiginiwetadekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dupobetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewogikupepilasigivafixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/92063789664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzemidatomuxupolapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86666911279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2160ca7d0220e0daa7483a16e073a7aa/vuvuzakikiwifosoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/madidevetutavugijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.eu/userfiles/file/puwetozoziveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/21541448190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/9118002554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l94urc6a7nh3g4agrgg3in9ecd/44873415890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alugutader.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16374877966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/wevadarafutesoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/jatobatufudirafego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantacyhandicraft.com/userfiles/file/51500416925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/38840067688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+update+my+apps+on+android+phonePDF 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_off0000cccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCCD 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 144c5c11914230419927924a8ac02e9abdac0641c1b34da6669cee050b4dc6cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF7 10904 bytes
SHA-256: f4615e27fe3a6d469942168a993d4739ff83c801322fcf26552737373350209f
font_02_sfnt_off0001160f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1160F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1