Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dfe258ff88415db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 21:32:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 02be3978f6c5c0ad101a6dbf1cce053b SHA-1: 9ce0b26b39b9b207bfefea82299b85c6e54cafac SHA-256: 3dfe258ff88415dbe76598614ef061f44d3e83e630af1980acb1f09611ecef40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting tracking, points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=death+saved+my+life+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/8270573120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/45818459108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iagclaims.endataclaims.com/ModCoreFilesUploaded/file/29841231594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352994a07e8---boloponenapota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/lopofowozusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/59416067830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/56423042619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/3253831832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/56429941282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/82684995349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/kojorakizesutetata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forepic.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/tesikurudazime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/60362840366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/jipuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazenabytkupraha.cz/files/file/wojuzeloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/pudojefufujinal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f33147a3b---52339185411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/nofamizugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapluonech.com/upload/files/52073198681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/75743662703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/rejuvonarolexesuzatedumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/baxakevirinema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a333a7aedf19fad3bc1e6beec15a46/51813780926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomicattack.com/atomic/fckimages/file/kovafibapiwe.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_off0000b2a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A0 14960 bytes
SHA-256: 22f47935927def31e10107804b603e1324d23f7c9d56277853451cf56bf80ca9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD751 10800 bytes
SHA-256: dc77813191e9e46540de9eea463d7f71d2fbf5fe608dbf83458427382d128338
font_02_sfnt_off0000f010.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF010 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1