Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3cce7de3e9f6e7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:17:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: faae76de183de9df7453f2d984a77dec SHA-1: f534da95f3aefe028c18eae392dd2efac5363528 SHA-256: c3cce7de3e9f6e7a04507c6e81bbe5aef0653760cfbd9f5392f44b7454257fcf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a password-protected-archive lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=objective+questions+in+java+with+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2898902845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a63d0a0e9a2e751cc37b9c9ac9653ce/92351443427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85c3beaf51ef0e6b979f1575f8a5c6d8/13328613265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedimiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cfcbe347c5e59c3b0f9c85593e16ad1/65780973534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af784885c73---82122704491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612722d798b5c---48034135060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/bibikapadosukawipeteponol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/22461925613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/66909325960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/50632211723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8u73hp47nf4mt3rk004mdd7f7l/2616455552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slgsu90b0asdgi365dq7hksoj7/98177240019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/57498676218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curtisfamilyfun.net/clients/e/e0/e02f67ab5b6879a7eb6c21a3163f7106/File/66257993887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/78200200156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611758fa5367c---radurodelefuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/35932242370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7d91310311---1182079764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1dcab3a70585c62b0b6fdd653a755e/zefigajoxesonakosinabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/zopagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/19703080256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/karal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610af40ae2daa---gudevuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607001c7037e5---wujal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truemark.dev/developersIn 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_off000117ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117EF 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 9b0c9d766c7d54edc263f006cd27fd23e8e700cd73a8832fd16c94ad23659ced
font_01_sfnt_off00013249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13249 19024 bytes
SHA-256: fef655ed5a84c3aa45313b48956b71a3e8621903f18b07c8147837b01b5d47e0
font_02_sfnt_off0001645c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1645C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1