Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a996a72a682c183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5f4fb628b407010436c790fd0333398f SHA-1: 8ccaa17da7a187294e5dbc940d200ef727d384a5 SHA-256: 3a996a72a682c1831c16fc32e865550f4d3cc040302a7571a0a5c0ece8020ea8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this file as malicious. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c16079b205707c78b6737f6266352baa/85893208730.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89367903942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93de2d476d4b56b8c5a1577089f13767/rorulaxegibupudolit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/potafopimixasebaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/fupebifevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/33740642285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/13614228810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/30256422323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/75514676661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/tumedoxukoliraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fe7563e4fc1d56b96e1e1239968b1d5/kolelodotixiwinozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/15487648159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb95c4fc18---13834769860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/18027956764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xapemikudajekajokamevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/23073595270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73894735e1df77a9e69d419df8f333e1/89854098571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm0ph6ojgnji1egmtj5p2b56f4/fesisimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c94u97p9l2qmjmkdkssdd835n7/88245127870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120a19e9dfad---53314689295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/sirokotawiduzesamexoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldp3qemibsjbph6pqn6v9qr1om/77015358492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d35506b20ab9612ba23b8e4c49ccb30/91481469323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/7746732522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5e16bf8a3---pujelobodumoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=left+4+dead+main+charactersPDF 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_off0000e6da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DA 17244 bytes
SHA-256: ec9aee0638a3cfc0e0cb39acf5a45599c87a97701617c2499ae2c775bce94107
font_01_sfnt_off00011335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11335 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4C 10612 bytes
SHA-256: ca03ca5a84744231b5d0e52498557d41829b9227e88a69f9917397e1aadcfa00