Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d5000cdbdeb3ec7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:46:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f8a50989b0c445907eecd025360e7b31 SHA-1: 29200bdfc08556a875f9a24bcfdd7b12956f5e3d SHA-256: 3d5000cdbdeb3ec7c2493c1a7893095f7f838b70b185ea50ad99f40e599b256c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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=how+to+play+minecraft+with+friends+without+being+on+the+same+wifi PDF link annotation
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8f558f90c2e620da64e5b4ab75e0dee/boxuzideboxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/62063676959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/96861694760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/defefejusofetoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/gaguxetonejudelekewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowibiwadaturezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85f8f3df8---vaviparikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609080016dcc0---fubuvijofelebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609430e88a994---30183501161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/nubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/vorofedadixinikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os071654bdm3ifbeid9q68aosa/wusovutaligodavimewixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/35694737008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773b3db3c7e---runoxosimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d297b58ed35a581e065f6dd3f81daa6a/wusakakemoreralel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/35543896980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eecdf1b502d052e5b9bf4e55e78172da/nubisovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tremonttemplemacon.com/clients/862779/File/15243090632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543e5c7739b54d699174518f947bead6/jafamadolopubosifomuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/68702735012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/pafowagaledev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4storonto.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/40652860283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0aaa054e63a53a770424e00ee299251/7336205377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47081012d998d7058ee38f8f0b6eb31f/98313177880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/37367632523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/lesakexaludud.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_off0000f874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF874 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 0c03e5506a7ee18906b8258df9cf615a15255edceaf550ecd90d7161ea901271
font_01_sfnt_off00011312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11312 16820 bytes
SHA-256: 29de5d4526abce2738c2fd83d15e353ebe09ae0a77cdadd62fca2e69ab80cff5
font_02_sfnt_off00013f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1