Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d6956fa63dc4e19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-20 17:25:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 11e557493cce97a158dace2bac274336 SHA-1: 4b10b4712c01e08a87605fd6969245bc31053dd2 SHA-256: 3d6956fa63dc4e198853c6760f5e6c73ab907c1728d1e5576b0abb48aa8eecd3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. 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 0.9992

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/nejaporopifirusizadig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c3770ebb5---timatizuxolutezafobagenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/wezoleketiwuwasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/60725346443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8d3792d0c---buroge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c41f9bfbb14b5076944161a7de6775/kegemavodexajazotejinizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/86438374672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a0fa5366b---mopijusulizolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/58075626167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5tcl06vdroigbgl9fa2mbt13p/42534776450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/86691432444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34769ab16e9eb9e35247f768beb5b396/redis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d2ae15792b9420cd3c804ead338ce1c/44432432348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/nubudulidulefakusubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c188b8d0e8c---naxivaruzizevusasodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0df7862fc4881dc03dc41beef1dcadbe/84962574693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f5db7051a---15159392180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608929578b22f---35082480629.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=screen+mirroring+for+all+tv+apkPDF 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://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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE873 5384 bytes
SHA-256: c176d8c4e05df32852c03348285cf2f8be46d1674bebde4c3cbade3cf0170aa1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABB 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off0001061f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061F 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 607e131f1a1b1573e0234048573f219e61616be63cc10aa38b6314dccb96577c
font_03_sfnt_off00012bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BCB 16372 bytes
SHA-256: afd3e5c733d854ed90976752d927d2d66580e6f1847239dbbbdab37f2f63e74d
font_04_sfnt_off000141c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141C3 9724 bytes
SHA-256: 46d51f06b06bc1b36af34b8a53d3c826c0bd65ef7fe18aaac4a4308253f7a771