Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b1c11875e8fdb50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:34:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7570314700332756cd798170390eb606 SHA-1: b1fec6cc14739b5ba2846a3490edb6222b3fc473 SHA-256: 3b1c11875e8fdb503633c7efc2e9a9db443d1f0edb3f70dbff932fdc6fb45648
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely to facilitate an advance-fee scam. The document's content and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing lure for financial fraud.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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 http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210725022535_7793115.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/51224034842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46bhll2tep2ncvdq8of8tm2imn/47159554905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/guxezilojoxojefalifeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c82ef24996---pipotezebitajowaxepebiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/93753427874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinspirations.com/clients/75274/File/vedejoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/bisubuginarirabisatizuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2592e9de0e0498426bc9fd9d3e28f849/38756193153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f342f3f922ccea489f604eaa2f9ec13/winaveradadutukexufipebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88f8c3e933---mubodedodituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennyhigh73.com/clients/3/33/33ce00c6a031cf3b17a3dcf69aaa7594/File/21457779851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/13710927179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/98124717591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021060908504826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/83426148739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/7245463899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/37006530794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115c62071db3---fakidanitidimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents/files/vajexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/gixexubufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/71205434724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=colors+by+numbers+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_off0000dd38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD38 18492 bytes
SHA-256: fa5ebb78b481dab20b0c18ed6444b5dff31ae6ad0df5fabf905acd2e0dd4f475
font_01_sfnt_off00010d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1E 10692 bytes
SHA-256: c00a19ced2f4db0f92939016900e7818a8a8c5ebf0a6b0bae22ae5b287adf4f9
font_02_sfnt_off00012571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12571 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1