Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3112283801d61702…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:29:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 427bcf2245cc5e23da40d1e6f74589ad SHA-1: 0f33864f8a4c7649f7938f62dd49c56e6d9f8019 SHA-256: 3112283801d6170296dfc0975c4354756a51029e071fa403e913e02ec282a944
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm. The presence of external URI heuristics and the sheer volume of links suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/zerobixara.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unesco-mediain.cz/fckfiles/file/fukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/49539144404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoteliniwuzoxinugekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetownsendfamily.net/clients/a/ab/ab79602242cca8f930cd52af13df1d51/File/89720129950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119eff9d531b---muxikenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/ci/userfiles/files/topumozedajofoxunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b96e6601b---femuximuzelomivaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/tupoganutinuxugaxariboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fteq.ru/files/file/89841245265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/15302715691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/15395920892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af2bcc2b6448f397ee1ec03af90f64c8/lejerugene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-26/20210726114418410620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/77883556301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/57113992009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ed4690127---tewejetadopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/fivuwojumazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/7604598910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/tufegozigategumedaduwojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c63558c8b65ca6ee2f6ca7fe3a8367/dibubefabekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84837142559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7380ea77ec31a097647b707f5297e17/tenazuvosaxebowebadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210819082122_mah58v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=carbonation+test+of+concrete+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_off0000c0ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0EC 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 7de2754bf461df7d9b15dd649488965640e1554d6b9b00c2481111ec9713f7f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD98C 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 8a4d6e3217ed627bac7fc419d450c6bfbc81cc667bda2370999a3b7081c39463
font_02_sfnt_off00010407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10407 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1