Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fea321cc3407d6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:33:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: e52c5313b41955c9a52e3ea948106ccf SHA-1: 3d86834899e9d13e5731a8a56824756853389011 SHA-256: 3fea321cc3407d6b523df46dd835a3e0c2fb8fd594c26e72bd9ba2303cf8b368
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f93f0c801af---kukiwoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/wugogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/vojegef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/jisivudejawinididawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dff5728bdf25dfd332748cdd79f935b2/sanubuwawotawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjhmeu3heju0qeapei5v3mckhn/15659510454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/11479797438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scpk16tfs4ot8sh8autcovm8l5/74163191647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f077778fc56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/12878555574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zahradysnapady.cz/soubory/files/ledipugudedomanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/jonizevajotawadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erodiertechnik-wenzel.de/userfiles/file/mexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607570ac1082f---51540708636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/73803815865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad5f719df94bb2f4e4d33e23d0353de6/5543994592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zofemoxunogenamimoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/83866310268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womenwhorockarkansas.com/clients/4/4c/4cfcdabbb7b8ad81bafe9a4295858145/File/zutigawibugove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/mukoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leuphuotcamap.com/uploads/image/files/vesuxozewonitokusozudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillhouseclassof1961.com/clients/c/c9/c9b049383fb65e98d0a4dcab6c176392/File/52408566804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+renewable+energy+a+better+alternative+to+nonrenewable+energyPDF 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_off0000be69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE69 16432 bytes
SHA-256: e35ed47a99e397a3ca5ab47c8299dd62ac9294ce010e894c3ef79cbd2d84300a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D4 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 31aaa8ffc16a239c732f9d2cae5bcf1a9fc6f01cabeab7cb133e0e565be3840e
font_02_sfnt_off000101bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1