Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e7de35bf49e954d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d4892a663720e2d457c6fda8c715ce53 SHA-1: 82f48aa424fbf66f059b231d369da644742dc2ce SHA-256: 3e7de35bf49e954d7afd9b72de636f8677ab6f67418011defcca9b3d745bef4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, including those with 'utm_term' parameters, suggests an attempt to disguise malicious destinations or engage in SEO manipulation for phishing purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/74510462519.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/wepadefixoparifelupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210707_815047DB151BE01B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ca41bfd14---fowowaxokevetubutepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/80151254864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/nakapepewofegonoravisivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5e8k1u432dfjp948kl0e73nov/7013259837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/66408796009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvacations.com/userfiles/file/1723246551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/pogikoxejezimewesoxigobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--xhq021fvrwdth.com/d/files/rusetewetosezuraxuvido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/58547304838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607491ab32d5c---pofifemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100ea95ea290---famujinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54818774006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90d9321f0e---jumotimedizabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/8887197070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jo3n3jpkmt0a0he4ogkhqhrsbk/34613385137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/pejiwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/dabomudosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/jaxefipiwavesixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161055d8bf04e9---53903596622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=terapi+okupasi+lansia+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/joxironalutawavilujibefiv.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_off0000d486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD486 15968 bytes
SHA-256: 5d576e80e9a822b2e6de7c65f84db3bacd858561b91fdf9de4312cc67202dc37
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E5 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 9b5a4782ac71e1ad2959ad8a91d4880ceefa2d9fc6048f96066b4e082d0c8445