Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ceaea67fb1632e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-13 01:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 35fb06a478fb2c485a13a8121676972a SHA-1: 742abeac4ba78f17e12295a92bfb1102142809b0 SHA-256: 3ceaea67fb1632e7b78d5daeeff03efe981a1df582809ed5de15ff98347d9ae6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of a link farm and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=punjabi+movie+chal+mera+putt+full+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/28265518081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f565b8bfd73fa9c3af0b10b09cf1765/zixiwawelavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/lawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609b75dbcef69---85644682254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/birononilafujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16205888858121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4792f2519e3b97f3ebba68f80a29e7f/lupegunexubodimovuxopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6843f4dc8a640e1a452d3315fb7b116/41621774781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32c18c783f64880ba8de8c681b181c8/tefodogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/36467771333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/67157070128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796a47a76bc---mejinopumatazenisajose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14872f7e78cbb11aad8bd4d31b4940ac/sazotukumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e242bbc3acfee0695846acd36e9b05/84484767057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7833cb6ce60a8e11120144a261e7e77/dugazodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a153e4a8e4f---guxusebinolifuxafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D9 5584 bytes
SHA-256: c571d97c78348facbe52316a53de5de95432c7528abaa1c0ab318d0be2b67edf
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC4 11472 bytes
SHA-256: d4709f066aa3a2f2871ffd2eb5f1a2ffd10321ba657700eede2481cab3a7a754
font_02_sfnt_off00013321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13321 6168 bytes
SHA-256: dfd1c60700e0929983b28ee3c2191a6dd1144356cf58bfcb921842fd43a2adb5