Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca861bb4c1b8101…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 37a5edc4e28179224e986498f02f6524 SHA-1: e7aea2936a706edfc96b92e6ff5f6dce1639fc81 SHA-256: 3ca861bb4c1b8101b7d63736c75622649cfed54c2679c82b99341863a1d55d6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to phish for information or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deforming+the+earth%27s+crust+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://cantinachitarra.it/userfiles/file/12676533531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents//files/xujizizuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee6f6f1576b---72952777935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/39668149983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/17571365542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/37719603030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8822630fbd0318c586695fcdd6cfac1/fizupabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c6f5d2b2a6---topagopatetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d76c943c5e---33606057403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrukseo.pl/userfiles/file/sujule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/buxawitaxegefazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/67000563393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/nulitokuxagipizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bijghjho159rsbtn662l5sf143/ziredunumufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161210e3f57544---lalovipiwafexopizozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9495c31555---raboxoxifekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/47838803575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/34244060704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd7774d295b---degemovisaxupamabimojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawegabidinasagijenupileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/renobozazufudanakebujurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9bd842b79---fuweredejako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/25789135895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dddd9b818acc64295206dd6d0ba6ebe1/sunidevovetejerape.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_off0000c11a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC11A 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 5bd14abffec06219917bbbe2f4b17a720b40cd8711016eabd8ae5c07429ce227
font_01_sfnt_off0000dacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACC 15916 bytes
SHA-256: dedbae59670d9836bbc1257df97d51c643bf9a9bb9d83e6f95fc3fc429cde429
font_02_sfnt_off0001037b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1