Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3498635b21ed3b3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:23:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e238e278ac233a05b1d3c3a0710ad5e2 SHA-1: 4d18ac25abbef6a493c4b70142a1dfb29d2872d1 SHA-256: 3498635b21ed3b3f60a94c0679ebae554c3005e65bb63158846f3a4b651f18d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prefix+and+suffix+worksheet+4th+grade+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/fidedisatuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/lutuporutipikojukopovegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettobotteonpierpaolostudioabacus.it/userfiles/files/gigebimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanalizace-ul.cz/userfiles/file/13854723981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/15327712649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/41810617120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/80164205797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130fc4a50c0c---46418955352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/ci/userfiles/files/kulubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b77fa7e41---bedokowukiwuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698a7b93d521b8a7dab4b31474b746c7/fedoluvotomomali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/89767714331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/sejapagumakeguxerogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368e7ff1248---lorinesosegunekafema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130af96425f9---pigagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/dedijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitrine-prof.com/files/fipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/91491922882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/valovurapopajiworise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/91764686489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///tiwaboxubulizukenijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/91343177042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sauminandy.com/fckimages/file/fujaduvuvajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/31765424814.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF9E 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 51b81ae82fb0ef865e300054ba64b1f2bf68ffa5195eee007e6b5d7e98d658fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BB 16148 bytes
SHA-256: b17e3c388ca520c70044df51a505a8c8de3d1ca9b2e495c629779bc8d31aca59
font_03_sfnt_off00011746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11746 20596 bytes
SHA-256: 7f639a7e6f1dbbf00c776290735bc2647d074a5c12694532fc6e82a343519b81