Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f39aa31cc6a51e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-10-02 13:20:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: dde55969cbc1d784d50b229c0c938ced SHA-1: 91efc58e80ee300b5409989b68ff4a5adfc80fde SHA-256: 3f39aa31cc6a51e33b310f4fd1c11619fa7e37d0f8c04e18569cd3e05bc79560
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of these external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious second-stage resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613051b70d105---9921352312.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://olapromos.com/ola/uploads/editorImagesfiles/79160479296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevenhillsgroup.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6306252635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hebatkeren88.com/contents/files/80432954748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614673fda0de0---65861690735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/54796626511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/49490002415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58437804536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecostationery.com/files/file/vosamikorojowinepobosesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/68713685948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcrm.cloud/upload/files/seriposut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8146314483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamorasumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/39771381732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jerulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufufujibufazavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/wafutudijazumubawapenuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413ce918501---64170479885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawaasha.org/userfiles/file/46655501858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soccerauquebec.com/userfiles/file/xamifatujameberotefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotykbylinky.sk/_subory/subory/guxivuwazovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/xagibogeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dfb98809ed---26834123868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=getting+a+mortgage+with+student+loans+in+deferment+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_off0000b023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB023 16336 bytes
SHA-256: d8d7856ec73c146b6df2ece5c09bcacaea055e06f0b55bb665df6498429a7c1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d97f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD97F 11268 bytes
SHA-256: be54a628e2a82b5cc25c2bce163523502cbf84a9ddcd1f75d395dd4e3636c291
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1