Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 882174a90485d47f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b3aea773540efdc6968c756679cca47e SHA-1: bdf6b1e9149ad57a8cb2b32a31d4fe1e98841ccc SHA-256: 882174a90485d47f7981163ba6590bdffd4da08b5d076c9eff4b88af206ac3b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+witches+tearoom PDF link annotation
    • https://rtvpuls.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimelarefamaxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/18976920428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/jijaxupofitudesugatuluwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vli61pcdscmgtoc79jb06v1du5/39161177495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/998a60f853e72c0d27e0a450ac22ce60/66394910253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///85347924031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/jemanuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/roninepofinarururarogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju62c5j942ob8nqvbgtbd94pl0/27653957957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/95432174430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35520ebc9---44322249963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade3c3d6a42---23296199254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/972b873cfbe4aa5c596cc39916913739/75077131923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8d37530b2---nibegadolowopesevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0143a5e2454e474d9de1f0f3f3777c55/keninififosawumenegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/dozevelunifopeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aoa1161isn8lrsqusg777i37af/dofelugupogudabanisixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210628074615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860cb72c8d8---82346691712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eeeb7cd7a---tawoxadoguxodedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/modeludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2995e6e4faad7c4f3bc670669a44d9/zolorozizupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a7948f280---guluworumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5e13fd6c980364f984175ece0754bb/mosonixawipidozuxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be9fe65c5e1589a971e1594f2b8fdfde/17121437821.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_off0000dbce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCE 17128 bytes
SHA-256: c640337f74f371915dc03c86452bd04a52d9d7619706a8c9470c277217a32ab4
font_01_sfnt_off000108dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F4 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 7daeaa7bd7a73f99d486ca96da135ec0f59fc03bbaad464f7d05345fa0cb2906