Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c3502afd6e422fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-08-09 19:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 9459eb0a582ca49b2ff184ed6f4a9364 SHA-1: dd559fd0aa6fd9cd3be358f5d37f79c9b20cc6b8 SHA-256: 4c3502afd6e422fe7c949330cc1b95f95b74d3f3a96b301eecc62be22d3af484
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 0.9973

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=homographs+worksheets+for+grade+6+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/37212865311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1777f62e34b0bf30d67bf133885ebf46/73997924376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/66424178479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/54082980629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095dc5394323---8050742894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71507505a9---87095399496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/47016167850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/59629599017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/gozakotakuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcevent.com/clients/871459/File/jumame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/bakonilunixidezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotherelectric.com/files/53295487610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/53936777676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/22221850355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/21973669197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/78178336228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e7f11ef81---kogubunewamaxebozavemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf04e320a407c739a701afd0cf5a47a6/tirebazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3a5374fd2---20834251517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733961dd63c---mozeluxogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/6566672949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa8f4e732836806d7fcafeb037fc31f/71645966447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608771a5a6852---6095514967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5adf3b708d---45737031788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contua.org/userfiles/file/wozasaveza.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_off0000c805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC805 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e01c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE01C 11236 bytes
SHA-256: d6b65f72662935dd497f76be0abc805aea96f03ce64b05668975cb4b5149da7c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA26 15880 bytes
SHA-256: c3db48fcedd79a2e9f2518e1a63f8c0e8b5cd04c9a5e624fcd1ec3ba14ad2a5d