Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7c3d9743efe9ecb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 09:29:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a3b89942235726a6f3fe51ecb3b90447 SHA-1: 8231e6709421bbe060244e09688a8c5deeea7d89 SHA-256: b7c3d9743efe9ecbdd557d967b2deeefec1e10a71db87d9e45ecca5c8adbcaf0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely serve to redirect users to download additional malicious content, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jcmimoveis.com/userfiles/file/80811039921.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atsrealtyvietnam.com/upload/files/63903156323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbibepnhahang.net/media/files/55652143914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135989e89d36---78178243999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/sujesexijomuwavabaxopovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613477670b700---78619008289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/44331088113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/68318837820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/5613422450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asiacoservice.com/file/files/xuvozivuropinezixufodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19447028948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/37090314312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/logaxibufewurazopuvugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/75534789974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/napoxifubomokoturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/50769786539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faruwuxamofipabufuzeviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perila-vrn.ru/userfiles/file/sizaluruvalivoxipefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingmingtai.com/filespath/files/20210910032531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vduniu5hna8gtsak0osgh05it6/9126633246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c7eb5b445---xobotobosizelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be7c80dfd695da10f67ba0d2db121d6b/42759111627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=insanity+asylum+free+downloadPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD890 18628 bytes
SHA-256: 8674c4a150aca90b14cd3d03a8267541922e4e8bd70ffc78a7c277ac2ee42437
font_01_sfnt_off00010916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10916 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001212d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1212D 10768 bytes
SHA-256: db18515ef01bce883547dd8b148baf22f19f537777119fb6b0b9abdfa2898622