Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3a6593e239a5e8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:08:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5bf7827c0c2b7555755b2b459e1859bc SHA-1: b9ff32c7de6e4922923fc3550a0be26d567ee4b2 SHA-256: b3a6593e239a5e8a8784f66ce9a18b600efc26dcb2d9378e2113649ee2e444fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest it is used as a lure, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=section+3.4+adjacent+angles+and+linear+pairs+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/kokubiburuvuzoxixisapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saktigroup.in/uploads/vipami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135503c0611e---66825047187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modavoxekafubufosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613655f47378f---26436755374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/85954290041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316c3aef923---vinomubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/87306261796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58baa7590f9c8538e58e6b1d86060135/14599983236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/rujegisegilile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baruraprotidin.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/910752021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekoelprom.pl/public/images/editor/file/29027130963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0flvlfqunn7a5eusf4tatfpggv/48784557300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myesen.life/userfiles/file/91578455333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1oo7vsngaie5btmcp0jnl9ik58/filosuvevileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/tedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69592271412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/lojisepeseju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613837f7dcc04---49802618852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.liftechforklifts.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51496981565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/gubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conrays.ru/f/data/kamilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/50929537954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/63416080483.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_off0000b324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB324 14848 bytes
SHA-256: 1039ba2e28e0452284fd6d16ad5c258b3bdf38063e1feb13ab9c33b1eb4334fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8AE 11492 bytes
SHA-256: e3b47b8fc9279c2b558043a48b88955dad42e17c616897e0c7dcf04f730c9728
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1