Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ceb687a7508ffcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.1 KB Created: 2021-06-22 09:35:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 6e93efa55bdbc0153521135dee20873f SHA-1: 0aa993919356e62fb407eafd34a8b43c1cc96220 SHA-256: 3ceb687a7508ffcb12425e974f1c2b0cecb2bd75c2b0aa979713f59916aa96b9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 0.8763

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=love+symbol+text+art PDF link annotation
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086194fbcc37---16022072736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/mebavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/jopuzuwukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/66432355337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/rewenukabafigobedojizudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c42e63c3d---japonawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiteam.org/clients/b/b0/b0c4817036ef1cb73596cc935f3fa86d/File/kabonerapagezuwukopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkkimtbn2nt03ieb4na2qq9u44/62741042090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/60693194673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/80797604449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0869653372---31633124245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cd267d7e497754974a77bbba5f6251a/41346222773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d047e9dba5c---61977623287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file/%5C/60947001908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/69309124533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/70181800883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b64b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB64B 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 2c73014a89b1d607fbbea72ec01c527221acefb51f6601ac99fa436f9addb526
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7BC 3904 bytes
SHA-256: 137d69562facbb031d71cc37030c53a86f86c148388df2674b11900f55f7a171
font_02_sfnt_off0000d3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3DD 7752 bytes
SHA-256: 41cbe52621d0e505bb0cd94e2574be621420edbc543602cc994f62bc7bdd15c1