Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bfdee1733995772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:28:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: a5968096431e89ebd916760e89163df5 SHA-1: ad929b0b69d4b2f844bb2c0e39287780b28a51ac SHA-256: 3bfdee1733995772dff818413e1dea1c4950f48f09ecc52c8ba5acb1668f308c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9toc7h0btf1debl8phnme9itlr/nowerosuxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yeditepegumruk.com/userfiles/porerekimavazijexoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13f1450ce3---91548138769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/xixezejabagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ebe77edff8f1046829352613fce98d2/95370629978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memphiscentral1969.com/clients/865565/File/gukegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinevay.com/upload/files/milolorugekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89663628781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989b3651245---47530849327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/dezerawejilitolotorofinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/tavanuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/ziwuxigifawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbleg.com/admin/userfiles/files/35321132198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161008845189d5---4479260019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/puxawivuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/rowuzinugogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/11856827861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210508171015_139295779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161001e6bc5642---21399014098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f84c35885a1b5205ddfb31b6874a0a0d/zasivaxolirojumiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210729_220127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2mp03anf87vobg7jdhaka5o2o/wegaboxiledobujipiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/46135146873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a8d852521f---zemuzivizinowutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/62555269352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+ultimate+guide+to+chart+patterns+book+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_off0000ea75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001028c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028C 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 703d82d2fd3b13474e29d66cd4fff5f1598bef4b588a4a41e894a4d74c659e51
font_02_sfnt_off00011ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA2 18544 bytes
SHA-256: 0922d7db5bb049c14ca7a2d452dedb31f07f381f36f0607899e522d8df072521