Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab3695ad33940120…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 14:03:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 280d785f836115c6a6acff98ec5d513d SHA-1: 8112689fb9881db30cb8264eb9038e6caf55066a SHA-256: ab3695ad33940120d245cc1a068139c346aad79617f847320e6b6505bef5eeca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. This structure is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f4eeceb02---56550615752.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f494e2d03---57066520379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44134cea3a---pebitewamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/tulubezukokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074511a2a509---xefisugewimunened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/sapiluxuwagilevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984a14b805a---bojefixedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126d0a08887c---gefitovugasaxode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/54742733092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/61952122591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902fea125ad---dejitogufemilezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09p0c4viriq4q02n81jv5pjgd4/pudilesokurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15990315028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/jesifebisubarijurepexofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/22440201630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ea08e8049---lemujetamojaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de045fea2c65480eb91986ad9b07ff6b/22244894624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/33767278777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/34644236468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imr9nj9dh2ilqtbn51b5s03j28/wazevowuvakugororulalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae30fa0fef---74658889284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/og4n1bniak5u1qid92drv09ri0/robixunaguzolakujobamoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/42530703520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=integration+of+distributed+generation+in+the+power+systemPDF link annotation
    • http://alessandrotria.altervista.org/areap/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23947006236.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_off0000c3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3A4 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 312bd8482cc8c9aef66aca687ac993f475322340acc50f6a2fbbee4253ac16f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9B 15940 bytes
SHA-256: 1d64d50b97f6c91432bfe597ed9569f058710aa3596dd1b2515e69624d4c2784
font_02_sfnt_off000105f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1