Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3512bbd79fa15f72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:12:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f410e612f8de66f79d707a29145210ce SHA-1: 78761817ab462748c6670911b76678e7d713873d SHA-256: 3512bbd79fa15f7297ce2d45b9eea037709a1fab48c988b97c6f320e933048c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or utilize UTM parameters indicative of link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://fpempresa.cen.es/userfiles/files/roxibupiliji.pdf
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamaxepib.pdf
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626ce36c435911b9fa7638855a6b8e7d/87963045862.pdf
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/36766041831.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146caa28a773---gegadis.pdf
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/42086125195.pdf
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/jowositesosugu.pdf
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamunugitosuno.pdf
    • http://bio86.fr/userfiles/fichiers/95185881215.pdf
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/xejevapufibowuxogejine.pdf
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52181671100.pdf
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/manabokezegemiwusefumadi.pdf
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903050443263808.pdf
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/3751622614.pdf
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/biwowojukulotato.pdf
    • http://infiniti.e-library.tw/uploads/files/69614123803.pdf
    • http://cloudinfo01.smartevolve.com/images/ckeditor/files/malufuso.pdf
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/gikifot.pdf
    • http://balashixa.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neropakoli.pdf
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/46642457590.pdf
    • http://www.kyousei-fukushi.or.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43087769857.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe9ca29158---vibixekem.pdf
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210912_145700.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=best+music+software+for+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de59.bin
ffd8c0ac0edfedceea80c4e8d751c08cea4db5e65a5cc06de2c56cd088338d1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE59 10828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f76f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f81.bin
27c73aff488202163b1883a897e7f9724d4f23fd8fdd3123f37d71db1fca9007
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F81 17916 bytes