Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3ee85862cf2c9af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:18:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 93791ddfa5e4fbcb12400696ed3a78e2 SHA-1: 807b5af8b34c2f6e4a8386048c2d2b368253c834 SHA-256: a3ee85862cf2c9af0897e682c9784132d678c67a20dc3072c7fc0f04a8d18a11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute phishing lures or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://toastwarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/widenelinemefixefu.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092efe56e365---69786237013.pdf
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/55991952878.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609643c1a5211---gamatupobunej.pdf
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/97561837629.pdf
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92db0a2b471c7153d380ddc5da088499/junekewefidudugebemo.pdf
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c83a2215a78196fcd976992f24293254/21865884967.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78c6498484---65383881256.pdf
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608869b2a7289---tuxomokidovaxafizavupo.pdf
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/75131040338.pdf
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/23647845043.pdf
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waxiwotasufupevuzawarur.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f28bb5f267---daxerawujodemesi.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b19643c8fb---safukajaguzasamovi.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f9df05e9c---79441885361.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cad93ebff9---vesopidafakap.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081053271956---wufiwuv.pdf
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e33c313c46bb543ceddfda4a007657fa/55665008658.pdf
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/terereli.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f593220b4f---47357752040.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80be292e31---31182258115.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=god+help+me+be+a+better+person
    • 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_off0000ecb0.bin
1af994602366bd822cfa87eaf53cfaefcd989c29235a53b66bec216d629d558b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB0 10744 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010507.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10507 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d19.bin
35c5c19b67baff84e6af55c907b3b099f2b5149903426a1846b1644b0a3b7ecd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D19 18244 bytes