Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3e6d9b72355224c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:07:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cd4543654c26b40a38a21454123b8c0a SHA-1: 115ce76bb8a772626e59517d43d8eff58078ba10 SHA-256: b3e6d9b72355224c34687624a74430c3582277ba11e5676defd02fbc0ef4b921
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature, indicating it's likely used to lure users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9807

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://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/48113812040.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/serewafujepudiraxubinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1sk86vq2glnkh3eqb6vc0g3nr3/41738201855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/wivufopogazewibidukokudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapusetometamolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manuale.aziendasulweb.it/userfiles/files/xeruvidirijivupugivonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adas-muko.pl/photo/file/41481395768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/22260190505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kossuthdigisuli.hu/userfiles/file/94472576768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/55972616868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73665514526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613793cf1c019---1126659674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/woweror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/34235933342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclaw-effatha.pl/grafiki/file/rafekema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whipitleather.com/userfiles/file/famepulovoxetumubotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14549608065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dade666.com/userfiles/202109file/2021090414195070554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdibju293q7jm8du6jo8dmu175/ruvusinemeladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d2dgroup.net/upload/files/43550965430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/37843690381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatcongnghieput.com/uploads/files/26331754983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermandadperdon.es/userfiles/file/poxumumivenaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/tafaruleleziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.info/files/file/lavozapimenupanoleremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldmotorsclub.com/files/file/55472269311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=inventions+reading+comprehension+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC2 18368 bytes
SHA-256: 984297381aad52d9f7e52a39a6313d14c542d47696227f6f708d55211bb00723
font_02_sfnt_off00011cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDE 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 211097b55cbf1985c25d6955e8b04dca157948ab56e2a5568b5bc4f37b63821b
font_03_sfnt_off00013526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13526 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 907922a84c6a1796f3453faccb29aa3669d237c12e769eef2695bf14f68f37f7