Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3c66f39a58c6197…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 21:09:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ab7e468d0cba0d400a9007fe16d7bc87 SHA-1: efbf802aaa9ebf7ba838cbe5cdefea83aec094c1 SHA-256: b3c66f39a58c6197459367d2e8b3b88f481e417146ed75376f7d7044cd2373d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious phishing pages. The presence of these URLs and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jumper+cables+use PDF link annotation
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980096501a4---xavipixavaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e27fd1aed---kuvojufowuwirixilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/kasujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c77023d60---zoxapotunafiwonavade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8321475523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeed35d279e---23043664176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/mexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0eb829c8f9---7943023241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da7be4338ea---vonovozejolifalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erhe4l19f9e191fq06mg08l1d4/92604463882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946fde8485f---fabuwijarideligadagepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb37jnvafitl39hhgq6jl5kg1/58251468013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db0ad3552d3---649911767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/61670111597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/53537870461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd0fac3dfa---ditijemosamamipori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ef52bcf1d5eece32ea482b448e0ee6/zutaninenakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_26D18C5844136A25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1046760eee4be0f9491a2d8f16bfacce/96111766312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/4712421832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608512be9de25---kuzaxoxudafovakibuwurisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080aee9ebdd3---35322690017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/6202950459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608707d69a5f3---fufovusudepigegusasepugub.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_off0000ed31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10543 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 361c14c94d3b2ba8ef825872697bbb266298d20b2feffdca12d61092c0d9990e
font_02_sfnt_off00013131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13131 10352 bytes
SHA-256: bb58e6fcd195ca881a836d438b0b8e6e0d7d5e03a7a6d3540c68681e940c7e8c