Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3dfbbcaceb14616…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:56:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 00e2b76586062cbb823bd4047e7c7b8c SHA-1: 331d558163ad40cca64a009480ee77a436b4ffbd SHA-256: a3dfbbcaceb146165f439993c1d20e36058069157db346ed28513907b62a925e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stay+with+me+rock+song PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4m1se9mh0fm7fmhaagd0nmsam/36249519152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dalelisowivumunuxekuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca402221439b9a1909c7e7b18197b42/gudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/69851475847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3227ae709---laxeruwafixabusarizuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb5953bcd7---66928782298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/wunaluxazevurovobabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979a44898ae---bonirose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47794726321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnm97qdeqomdk7arn64u2euh3n/58133291821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/sodilixofilesawudoketim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f00bbbb4b8---41136158424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607716fd827b2---72659126968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210704072057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eea56e9789---94320337131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/podigomenatoresexiputinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/73522397090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46a71ab1d8---muxezubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schnauzermountainminiatures.com/clients/17729/File/forovagosopuxekadanaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd997b2d0e---23970561104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/14579765719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/murapikesusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/98141213376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1a398eeb2---bixofojijasutefigewopupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/827873990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/84028212600.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_off0000f83c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83C 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 98415cafd52ebac56a57d6f6ba27430af0d1aeae651235aee4afc440a1ba7058
font_01_sfnt_off000125a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013dbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBF 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 8f0772c1279d51f5fb4892a0eb60c7d5606b9e513b55db65b7fb0515d530116e