Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a491038bf73f16a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:38:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 0b5f61d09a5f82291988b58f7e463383 SHA-1: bddf5b3c560bcf06c6889a9bbc3953162b872d05 SHA-256: 3a491038bf73f16af0f38b9ca6aa008397c1deba1e1022ce061eee3e93e7043a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.lloydsunder30s.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89757004984.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/jazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/32864842693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/15409694252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.eu/userfiles/file/78870560530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd414ca04d---67304408310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10117085287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/2021791248277241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4fe803e95f---pibananoxovofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/nidagawipabijegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/58505454549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298dbf93d9716ecdcede01e4cd09e69c/38500676199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/70805929364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/wamemigofifulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/42656727156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcyberia.com/userfiles/files/43802452818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45699486398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/novokogulowejitoxipapuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51e3ca7cb6---zuxubepukowegerose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/22269616740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872323ab0f3---86920901674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee568796ffca2dc22af59824c0fb4afd/mepimavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/fetowenorizezezumafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/fonewofuverezulogikakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=yds+%C3%A7%C4%B1km%C4%B1%C5%9F+sorular+ve+%C3%A7%C3%B6z%C3%BCmleri+irem+yay%C4%B1nc%C4%B1l%C4%B1k+pdfPDF 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_off0000b86a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB86A 17820 bytes
SHA-256: edbef11d82e2a769739b277a4fd9f73786d07e99984f7c968b26f97400bca089
font_01_sfnt_off0000e34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34C 11992 bytes
SHA-256: 15360511b92b529b8abc2aa81de20f4beb1c6138e34e0951ba8fdb03a7736ba3
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1