Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b667786b3aac583…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: de62b2acbbaceca72a3a0727a601e6ea SHA-1: 74e688ecee5c7882bc52d1d71e70f71c77ad3ce6 SHA-256: 3b667786b3aac5835a7ba299a311a7b6cce87f6df76d17fe68382f5b5755d017
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or directing users to malicious content. The presence of link farms on compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to leverage legitimate-looking infrastructure for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/62563072513.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/vinezaxavesatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xefavoxemowinozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frchem.cn/upload/files/bojadoziligemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyztyle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godejafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/luvabixuwagofige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/32166107596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/kikotuzofonusogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21e86891348972b4c28c6e301d66f346/rufojepuxomalobim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonme.net/ckupload/files/vujabokamikusuwowotaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b45c750d59dcacbb1708202e5b4211bf/82601451085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ichieh.tw/uploads/files/202109090451125381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/bidelikidepifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dumoruwazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatdesechia.com/storage/ckfinder/files/vivewekibeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagi.hr/files/68498439023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/63646409159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cemb.ca/upload/editor/file/87721983869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71659089931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/33248379432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ff2d46f03---xizirokaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/kavobagiwomonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://th-hl.com///upload/files/35126605553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210910_033835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=movie+apps+firestickPDF 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_off0000b242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB242 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 3de08065e1b3abb1cd24bedfedb929a592ba3b70a8ee59c5d76a27d96bdd007a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE265 14892 bytes
SHA-256: 14228ff0bfbeb52e5160d1349c6f2f267f808f8dfadfcb9266b412084f0ddb1a