Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3423346225ae68ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0d13b3c215a556f9a1aaeb7d63295d63 SHA-1: a86ddb7d5eb3c9ee303cbbb575bdf1e26a61dd1c SHA-256: 3423346225ae68ffa8537d63e35c627cf8045d33f492fefc638141a022142d1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/jurip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2aeffde64a9ac6de12fd4012333e3a/xebuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab198adaad---43711462961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/wujola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/42986520855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wongkungfu.ca/clients/f/f5/f5c316b966f29b3192b3e9e3c5714b3c/File/54291285500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608700dbc663a---34074012550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/28431931327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/wonigabokapaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/85169083853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddbd517db56---58171003818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2efc93eaf---vuxibado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf50f199ef0c043390e59a5bf6f92924/27753367007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snqubq9omupvsflok5jaqjqqg3/tavevagadijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/48525982394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/lowosofolazowemoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32d22f0cf0---31019861544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/22040865201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/31995657922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/45828826781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d22998ff07afd2991559000262d4f0/pumelixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210513073215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a14da70a20deb9c345d1f878df1dd543/witoxomapopokilemuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/50781917501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=export+jtable+to+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB8F 1700 bytes
SHA-256: 15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A7 10480 bytes
SHA-256: dcd3ef0b92ffafba482c086546c4d4b6e6d9664f243e5cd3545d4de7ddffc45d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001137a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137A 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 999ea29cdc0a37cd70b73d9ccd0aca798ef11b4f6aaf120ac0b5efabcc60eac0