Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aee28fb14489bd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:36:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 65a1775a131b2b9d59eb03ce91b78251 SHA-1: ccb70e2deacd91cce55f6b3baa17e20db605b797 SHA-256: 3aee28fb14489bd9da769b3b6306cebde4243317895598f281829501819ff4aa
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 0.9974

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=essay+proofreading+checklist+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/setesenoxopisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/woboxulovotoxofakabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/zilipepibetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34aae83a5c---60673747033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiapelhrimov.cz/UserFiles/File/2592155904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastravariaizvoarelebratiei.ro/images/file/vetezitosulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074200118f5e---13788014400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/bibiwotaxitamusasubofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3omp4dlempq7bdja8ujgfi8ccn/25227496269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/15884360948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/mowefuzedoliretafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44d9a817ebf8abde1ce4c95952bf1e2e/gijanovagekivuxarege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermanrooz.com/img/files/99354157174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e168466fc00---bezivinazizomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14c9c8a2639df68f9556a2ee89f26c5a/18133965755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/sujejatawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4bcd4rfv731qft89e2oveg9u6/vupoporeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dda33d00b2f---99607807213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/jilakereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/24522710455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882b497f184---rutigifebabiposubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/zamasavesenafapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhere.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108252024214210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c01c5e2984---30206754796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhs1970.com/clients/a/ac/acc339db084e87cdfae31a76a6c96f1c/File/63241622840.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_off0000dd5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5B 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 1b5d4501556458a0f1e1f55465f26478b607338a1ce27d34d9318a68f12d7050
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F6 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 09cd2c7766b7d3cface979e78e148091b08950156ac653618fe3bc1cb8fd8aa8
font_02_sfnt_off000125e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1