Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a7195b77996d696…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-11 11:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6422751bef59a0a69e5b3008541d46e7 SHA-1: f07d2ed15a0980bb9b9ebe6c8b0fb2cc5115c40c SHA-256: 3a7195b77996d6964a6e0a9c8f46c0ff4afa5ef0f62dbfc8c31018ff4bca074a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download' button lure further suggests an attempt to trick the user into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adi+vaadi+en+karutha+pulla+song PDF link annotation
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e719b1ca8e---55437531225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609083ee3e3c3---bozusimerevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b96534e55c86becb563f5ba98218992/lufimamaxokemusejimezada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d07f8ebbd4fbbb26104843ae1c953955/polimadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608640dfd8d79---xifuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d306ee285---pezinares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/66134772366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efd27d05b4---63237180411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb363753b17---vudukujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5dbe5afc88---73081194741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4156ce73379751cd17d809cc3713c4/jozesaxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac919ceaa28---dutezipuzifedizuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fap837lh7d9hnngccsj44ud54c/wavojufelepower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e3f83cf65---71681808178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltgvkfrvefr3br97q5sho1ci71/makumirusaguxixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210608_FCA7A1A5235CF484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453285cf2e59bab3a868c835cf2523f0/89905111945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a360a7bfd0a43e096c8c249bd984dcb/4484947157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF16 5336 bytes
SHA-256: a8982f95600d95d06c71470a21d11b928083370f1a6cdd19a2dc6dfdfa1eba82
font_01_sfnt_off0000f13a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13A 3816 bytes
SHA-256: ecc5bee0607a05aff6d6ed25e1433afc6ee90df9add08135074beb17735bbdfb
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF49 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 6038615068909d78e51a0bfc8c197b056582c3633dbe87db4294d2ebece15ad3