Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a414cad149a4f2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 10:01:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: efe0ed41589b8c48486972ad92943dc6 SHA-1: 5178c7701b7ac521c9fad0a87df02d55d8109891 SHA-256: 3a414cad149a4f2c6881d052d82dc2b38b6e920caa6bfcb2424f18094e9cd5ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The embedded URLs, such as the one hosted on sg-callenberg.de, are likely part of this distribution network.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tepomab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/48550378003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109132126224921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45030909057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c934d77810a2609d98a3658f59cda1/60172762498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/85959911530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordineveterinarireggioemilia.it/userfiles/files/63247552782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff8dc59a35---baxateniluvudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojanemosimubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/90741378206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/94022192480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904104920778564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/jomipenoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_D1FA75C1CD901F79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613680e942c7e---75354865225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/rabunitupilisananomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/74678048507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/21619209582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/377870899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/75373965956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2mou8bvn6j3mh7j4qdprngg22/60031504679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelniagararimini.eu/userfiles/files/37016744224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnumprint.ru/upload/files/58992820332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66308244864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/37468971022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=zombie+derby+2+mod+apkPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b92d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB92D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d13f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD13F 16156 bytes
SHA-256: 77633893ca00ac666b6e8f308ad5ac624108503b3e9b0815e594557e24094d22
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA84 10564 bytes
SHA-256: cefc3c94ebde665168d66b088ce22ce8fe363b39ec1ba6a9802f92b45cd9722b