Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bf3a9114be39928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:13:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9aaf17660be92846c1105d590b6b0b20 SHA-1: 9f77038694d2ea33bb1bdd8c6d0e26d9e15bc9b2 SHA-256: 3bf3a9114be3992807763000e52b8a2d5ef06173efebbf8501f6370f1b2b2534
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 0.9975

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=michigan+traffic+safety+education+student+manual+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/48609975827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073662b59631---65645580706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984a920a772---29113297693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28260444793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63c570f14f751a813fb86baaaaa423c8/9695735949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/pasetonopitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/kikewefijutubanuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119fca89b08d---48707316073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/58100914438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/17064768848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/64510613967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/wowelivonorava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095625310eff---nowabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/82818298268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d9abb76d66815aa532f0df221e68e7/vewewuputakasepuwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bbd2ee149---97936549730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/xidepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/37677376096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/1575962085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///41200598035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/tolejojasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcjue2d7qkb9ur5g29crbur2hh/tujuwovigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8a852bc31b648845c73d0192c62eeac/bixunaxipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c5b0ed6872eb4403df639ec6d172d78/33379349578.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_off0000d1e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E4 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 53cc4b667357dbf27225dc5f3813f4f6ec579722cc661a3d8b5fd9f6890f7ffe
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF70 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 3c9cc383178a3e6c426084e0fb64163a61a46effa853b7f7908c86ad45742086
font_02_sfnt_off000119bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1