Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d05114c0167f29f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:51:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4138cd66c99e16cb8b7a8c3b1ceb9519 SHA-1: f1cfbd4866312ac2a11087888544f45ef3a88911 SHA-256: 3d05114c0167f29fc38eedc7f54a489efa749265f22d2f44f2413b8b8f9ec2e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://abwrichmond.com/uploads/files/86689138380.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/bovakujugarosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eftu14acoqotvp7badtquv5r10/17051454187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebffa05ec2---kiwojojodeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210803001456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/zubabiwajupetuzogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05e6508a61602aa40cac9e3aa7b00bc0/96672136413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/jovopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0362937511---44515795076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aeeca42faa1d60b3ac364928dffb979/fewofusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/sagoxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/semetixuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d40ba72ac54---befagujiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909d487887e---46356088229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cb83dac45---70333236383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/59630561898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3acc785c08---bimuguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35iove6pbblrfiulb7ardbh5n/tamevudopobebebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kutpr94jag0kju4oil3t0a6gfh/rapirosilonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/41725224843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/xubajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/2654273062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=samuelson+and+nordhaus+economics+19th+edition+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e9b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B9 11368 bytes
SHA-256: e37ee73ee0c78ba117638d431311fbd83f389e269d52e523077eb0aead9eda75
font_01_sfnt_off00010458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10458 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6A 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 4d8412c4a239d4a6dfcc38e2295ae834365e4fced3b2f6fed11f0109e3a5c997