Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe3c6bab97d3a8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-10-08 01:12:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa3170566136020fbdfd3944fc85352d SHA-1: 1d2a03f45943c934b0b883630eb82a03a9c6565c SHA-256: 8fe3c6bab97d3a8ccea48cc0af63fa0765c77b645652aec669b2185169c203c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_URI heuristic further support the attack pattern of directing users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+for+the+table
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzumepulupi.pdf
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/zadola.pdf
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/66521038663.pdf
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145932e2941f---55106639595.pdf
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/wudojaxutimugiradavinugun.pdf
    • http://iswii.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jejagapafogadakitovugu.pdf
    • http://wine-paraphernalia.com/files/winep/_repo/file/tajerafod.pdf
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufomi.pdf
    • https://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/wukedisixewotatevejotafa.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ce7f20ad4---6139265576.pdf
    • http://marklaliberte.com/fckupload/file/39104367507.pdf
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/pufulakusataw.pdf
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/55008860695.pdf
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/mifukixofofogem.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k16tddrc5kh2qt0nga26euao7j/11099715679.pdf
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/56792999128.pdf
    • http://astorandblack.net/emailer/userfiles/file/69533578848.pdf
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/jalejawisapebinifizujip.pdf
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/23876045828.pdf
    • http://quaisetoiles.fr/img_pages/file/mofagiponujavovanotujagek.pdf
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/97227976074.pdf
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/bofisesenunezibekowukuro.pdf
    • http://td-mg.ru/uploads/files/gonoxekibaxuwudeno.pdf
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/77733078720.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe876a6263---kosafada.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb3b.bin
9aaafdee8d05fd1b5e6a396fe64ff8866ad289f50823a56c2aadb895bc5d262f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB3B 17020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e741.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE741 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff58.bin
e80140164920f32479a24659f1ee90e0a25044c494a8fb96b632a25096ae6cfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF58 10672 bytes