Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3edb586861f49c2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 878f00803721eeb6006e239c2fb3d79a SHA-1: 7235217a9ec2ba1d3bca5df665bd82d778da6f94 SHA-256: 3edb586861f49c2a42d755eca76158565e882846b0adcb3a7db39e836d90f3a9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which are flagged as potentially compromised or disposable. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these links, common in phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/xoleranirede.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/jivedezawigoruwosawejuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/12477901898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcconsulting.eu/klc/file/83814033707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/99989383237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ecd2e9bf5---86218151826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/wajaxukoruwajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/5168989160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64526746886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/savidabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/ziken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/didakopigava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/besomaxopofofaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/21346666513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2361620049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613808ec7d393---4474822080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/lotaxajarinebako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnyuanzong.com/uploads/files/20210906011946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/kokowumuzuzabamopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9d30cbfe5---96446237760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.net/beta/assets/file/5596984920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/49943605881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/11820617964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c22f0f94dc5f6089a8bd442d7f135393/11036249949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/18003868421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/84209176064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=krunker+aimbot+2020PDF 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://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_off0000d4cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDE 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 8ca294a82cfcaf3808411f9e41ef3fbfb66c116ccb5e8a6a734cac27c207d7ab
font_02_sfnt_off00011b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B61 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 8d59a5f5c9b674dc1d2a3a9f0a8e6778c542dba5f1ce052c0afb8836d166e3c9