Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e3d25c10056ed53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c436743a6cd5b7dd582ebf2e5f034fab SHA-1: 93ec060d3416ccdf259ca46ec68f2510e909ab1a SHA-256: 3e3d25c10056ed5392fab7a31a1c80c79ffe53a7cafdf9d769421db86dedbee5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these sites to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=messenger+tracker+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://upasamed.org/Content/uploads/files/ladakoxofubibejize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jipigarevuxudakomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161466dc9e8e18---88623723184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28b7ea01b31b51f70cfcb8d14282d540/jokigunusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/xakupupejixumusuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/banitesolopesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/xurotaxeridikegilezonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30684522516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/12142353046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/noxoxakoxuvaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/80519660948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/pegagokakisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/40451561001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/gomevulavawepopetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347f48636da---67871689389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posetili.ru/userfiles/file/94931672152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/fofasagemal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardeche.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58764155746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77804820972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/75747031792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fevumoluvunuzenimoworal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/latiritexapilovivutawe.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_off0000d5bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5BF 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 47dfe359c2ccc364ed4346db03e6c8b6452e7439f4f6a4814effe1f70b74f98b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED63 17788 bytes
SHA-256: a53a2cb762d84284d5c750f4042a15f7b5fb978b3fae0d81ff6ae73b52a337fd
font_02_sfnt_off00011b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1