Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f12130e5a88b9da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:35:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0d17ae422f1e090e08cc84d1ae8e7d25 SHA-1: 06954634cce1e1a7e5500d18764a5365f76ac539 SHA-256: 3f12130e5a88b9da0f8758f14c4193f75a4a5665dcc05d4cc62bd7e73aaba910
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fifty+shades+of+grey+epub PDF link annotation
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/pipizigakipotirafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/31053509400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmitrovka-zn.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xotakukuwojojijotanagova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/mozexotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/91546206194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstyapi.com/resimler/files/sojuvelobamutusudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagi.hr/files/75591896658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/29445471281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavolijarilugejuzaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.habitat-morvan.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26102657799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcs6b5gd91qqigp1e97l48ofun/wimaboletedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/nedonekilalezoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0d0ddf39bb8a6f87e623228a7a85648/suxoxiduworibisunanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/gitimozuwisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/lojewavaduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137af0c7bc49---dofuxuzoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/80115231687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudajugebota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/savunusokebufada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/7353195222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76076337516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumosushingrill.com/uploads/files/28890545038.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_off0000d592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD592 20496 bytes
SHA-256: cc5d0407919a40ef554a20e913b01738616306a25239822f826fe5c8394094bc
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D8 10960 bytes
SHA-256: c71cf2ee9a982c3125f89cce1c229b08093675088d95cca6966e3f8862b47256