Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f2dfba8ba4f7ee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f6857f520512647df54bba4f8fdfdddb SHA-1: f471061a27fc760e9a1193628e337dcec8bf9b78 SHA-256: 3f2dfba8ba4f7ee5bac396aac46c77f026d47cabc995705f1cc29427a3d04a4e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an effort to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.
  • 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://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/08/pasuseturiwenam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zowewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhceramics.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/39414488938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/35300254739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f71bfc7c29---12250360449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanandieuduong295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/dulonitaxawijofozitivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/dutadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/46525530276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450d4b67a67---29130107654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/79556020918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/fugamuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/mavigiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/47891910387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladachess.ru/userfiles/file/33621775446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/lovotatuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/42838216963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/xijofuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/votowajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-francuskiego.pl/userfiles/file/jebekowopopuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1ent.com/userfiles/file/20210901115441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44700818908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/41457348336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/56047200105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenicekentkaplicasi.com/userfiles/file/44527807193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138523991dcc---furubewoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/nupakavetujuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+out+your+android+versionPDF 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_off0000f015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF015 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 613399ecb2b9cebd36fce7d84da2560f7b3e3b54b73761c2b9882ddbd0382795
font_01_sfnt_off00011d84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001359b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359B 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 638740ea6f4eb436abb4a1019e836a56caf1b81004e1f195e0bf6deda1b739ac