Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d3d2259b7046f81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 80dd73c88e7f6a3cd91cfcb159b4f681 SHA-1: 3f9859243def41243ea1bde91cbe459eb2ceea44 SHA-256: 3d3d2259b7046f81a632bdb48314a6af54644f6e29d1a70b9e15f94eba24401b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points to an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=st+teresa+of+avila+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/77271389580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/77388432524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/1699392669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/51276472758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/wetetevipumate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/88943858840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3507148a2aadb3c03fb9f252097f6f8b/31244364858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/jitijakawidepivunejira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021052607352748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecabbc15a85---xokerisuxinafukujixebuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/kebarefilimelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/setuwowelilogababizeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/domofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/70455207610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/23693250480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/22192356596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ea0491d23f54d2c4848da24dce2fd8/8762251992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/27464466327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d53937025---nivubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/voxasoxeditukatenetofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/81253901133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_57E5C40E031012B7.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_off0000ef4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4F 10760 bytes
SHA-256: c75e0af27135e7488e57a0534faafde25134f52205f09c4ee71490ecbccf4ec8
font_01_sfnt_off000107f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F4 20692 bytes
SHA-256: 17a9b316b6886ca874745e12d44ef82927eb5f33a6a04b34f71f6574bbc153b6
font_02_sfnt_off00013cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1