Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3355a69c68f82121…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-21 10:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b1c8fbb1b2489fe1e6601c67deb59a62 SHA-1: 42aed4e5240d88912b044feb42cea4ac9f45097e SHA-256: 3355a69c68f821213f6cf3678fea10d587bfa2648ff2c304566aec2777021736
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary purpose appears to be facilitating phishing attacks or distributing further malware through these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/vevekiju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0b029bfd22---vejivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c749161d4---bokidaritibaguxaponepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/zoxoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tavijujopolazowaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/popimizaxalasejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7df353affb---mesujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4cfd7c1f5---7798548810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/lowejarugixisezuvases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c656cdabd97---wuzumetopoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/77226932339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f99eecd79b8fbf795e1e8d7625fb2b1/59800051312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samsung-service-center.ru/uploads/files/kamalarawobujifuxivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb3bd6fcc9---fabopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1495a41677fc859cf1f7b891db54c97/dobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/787e18e8cc879f218c0559b289abdf36/mowinowuzigerekibebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/30784417601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/1408295279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607770b6bb18a---26860276554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/97145785674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c0c9a16fa---namoragatulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/junajixanalokorikudaduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/718ee40bbdec5b47c5dd549cc403b292/pukilewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb32f6ed4c---fakasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33278da3240ff010d9419c072bf20cd4/rinelunutatolorebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+galley+slavePDF 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_off000108c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C3 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 35efe0844aecc061904b97be611a2296aad7655990609d5258d143677bfa093f
font_01_sfnt_off000132e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014af8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AF8 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 67d268ac2dda0828598ba0fb93f0dd1cc8bdd6829d494d424581cfb810f0bb16

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