Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3923b748fbb8766b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:18:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d26268cb4c8e4e221c75b0b4d313084d SHA-1: ff1be7c0f9dee7ef7971f016be2a54ba06b8ca68 SHA-256: 3923b748fbb8766b6f0dd5115dda178e12d57a145155bb6eb93b69d5abbab2eb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick the user into clicking a malicious link. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=remove+page+numbers+from+pdf+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f618551bd---rozatebanodiguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cfnllk20f7shc4gt6unhj009a/55683194936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/mifabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a27416cba14c812adeb0b036c1237aad/49620372214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/11298759071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6trtt0dpjke4j502tgl9q823rv/64592045498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1i5n71pmfnvl6k031lssch8gdb/87458267929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ac7m94ugos1vnm880l3hmdnog/fozarezepumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bf3bb9464---kevaxixigefovevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/72302781041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082767ca424a---27364342327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/59560163715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/gukamazaxoboxuwodifizamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/pesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2447194d03754d4db92a50dba0d683b4/duxifigevopalilitugizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a021a137337d7576c3ef27b2bd97b668/rewogivefaxoxejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/76162163160d2152be30e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/dezisetikepiwefuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/kemedofasumonaxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8353b9672e7fa88b9bfbc39930dc93b5/50000594612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.pl/files/file/lusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/nevilibana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gr9m46h71rdutin3fbtld2o9s9/sozegatedadisilori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c838b803a---17995133993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/jobovas.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_off0000ea4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4D 16568 bytes
SHA-256: 44b8241a61e274e76cff498d9d6409d9f78042a4dfa1e214f7e520ed77ecc5ca
font_01_sfnt_off00011576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11576 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D8D 11092 bytes
SHA-256: d713cf55f0e5e371a32be5edd9bb0bf6fb57376811f4ba32c9f8c07dfe05d031