Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3786a012a97bb4b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-30 20:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1d46879d8ce45d6779d9509de95f5d0a SHA-1: c357b08891940a4f1600ca3187e1c3c51f821f20 SHA-256: 3786a012a97bb4b3281c35cf00232f664aff4a2a3699b0b135d33208217bd37a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/dorejerokitexas.pdf
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210912094504.pdf
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/lexoxopawiwipusepisema.pdf
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63270313777.pdf
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/todutadosimanulifawi.pdf
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/58383971717.pdf
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/54210730911.pdf
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/padiz.pdf
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71790030827.pdf
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89746624509.pdf
    • http://police8coop.com/UserFiles/file/sixovomidifisigameb.pdf
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210925_012153.pdf
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/65404304814.pdf
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210908045106.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e836601b31---minuviparos.pdf
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e9b2bca26acc895e02e7e158cadaede/limonuwotudun.pdf
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/toven.pdf
    • http://pokrowce-ochronne.pl/Upload/file/bamelibisabalenoxo.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/99414458757.pdf
    • https://inprovitcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rozejasawopaf.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94171792ddc63e6877a875eb0de751b2/28751178838.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb8b75668f---ralopegopepe.pdf
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/pujisazefizivanudifik.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=wechat+file+location+in+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_off0000beec.bin
8e1f0bc4af3c493b6c219faac26587099ab7e3eadfc5aad0434c7404cf51a9bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEEC 10396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d661.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD661 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee73.bin
06c2417698e3ba19679ea89f052947c270d4026015a445292dacda18218e6025
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE73 20792 bytes