Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3542893b27bfeedb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:36:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 12affa4c989998facc88fdfd9fe24d80 SHA-1: b19b5556dd91cc736fe6e28b7004b4fb3192c028 SHA-256: 3542893b27bfeedb32311e59e1e68007b39c9474ea25accf82248d870e29bd08
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' specifically identifies a lure impersonating Facebook, directing users to the URL 'https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+robux+generator+get+free' for credential harvesting. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+robux+generator+get+free.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+robux+generator+get+free PDF link annotation
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcpqdnhrnci95s5rmd1eu4p491/77277702778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0b1ec85b---36390039316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80emk6701pfbffj9u8fqe7rjd7/befevuxodewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b307d71ed62---firefexasenosetumuvufel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/defepugetowewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9657b2c0123f5ba1bcb502dad1a04c72/97790289541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/61533624482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9p6gfcfcmkovav3f6can5uifv4/josuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12mcbg72agevo7i7cnpmujn83/zagokerovema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607018bef2368---dedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce1fa5c7fe4---jodijikuzutozobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turafavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945904b0ffa---75820033223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a470952a35---milakerokadaxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fecdd7e73a112e68f98387d03fa0b6/20511492239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/mulupoxasowigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46425685045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80530754b2245c6155bf4e0b1aab15d9/wojosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a9d0504d8---65774030131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f98230d4af---66865595512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429235444260708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091091a6c3c7---modijinisemagosukuwig.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF482 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C94 17664 bytes
SHA-256: c178d9c0a09edb47375667c290ff8c44cd2964edd7a9a2a1d988769c6870157f
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB6 10516 bytes
SHA-256: ae9ff0baf307423ba911857b93df5933e9c46f0c2dcab20307c3635b1a93bf00