Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ec0dadb0376e4e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 13:32:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: a95864c985eb40b48f70a6ddbd6cc7fa SHA-1: 4eba8fd73bbbf3f15b4886df92d08179498a426a SHA-256: 3ec0dadb0376e4e1b6eb15d1a0e25d8f698b9d9382dc063bfdc155f48e7aff43
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clash+of+clans+tweaked+ios PDF link annotation
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b333691a6ebb8d58d4bab53ee715078a/28817963271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/86228759118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/331b1a387c186a0803bdd4a14a8a9c53/zizetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b907f3592e7---37821913465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/38076720751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73287a948e669ba90c51932b1fa2a95e/nararas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/19766769421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbar8rtvu315kaf1quss221r17/lopexubasixuselaluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/xusejasofikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59bcca5a25---25345365067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a3c77bfd4---58981090544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/26854767842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/lodapuzilafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/gazibofejufurutebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/461e5d5d689688880d55513b925fd6c8/fedokotagudovidudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/wifekimomafojawazonifozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB4 5076 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd7b1fe760d35a71924f52e1c9f882cce2d5dac931376f756ed0be1c6b4c929
font_01_sfnt_off00011c00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C00 3820 bytes
SHA-256: fce535113dfe6c5962770fc8a7a66ba915b94caf6ac78e197fbdfb6f3ee542d6
font_02_sfnt_off00012694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12694 12172 bytes
SHA-256: 39b3553920548787964a612bf2067d18d71705f2b56dfe771d7411c86c32074c
font_03_sfnt_off00014e98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E98 18496 bytes
SHA-256: 25d99a2accca5a2f5b083e9f987c12b6e34e15424ad812dddbc3d3772bdcb288