Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3efce7f10b5dd0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: dd1261baeb64f23d05334afcb0b516ad SHA-1: fffe05de090154d21479a5ec8b86e2f913885d67 SHA-256: c3efce7f10b5dd0ddb54fba8ee6e813d2fe616443bbff9dd842e4a1edb6bb9b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and a link farm structure strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also returned a high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/sejisibolexu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/91705774837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pathakpharma.in/singhania/downloads/file/zuzukuvogijodawoxeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/51167046586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/torawobemusigilemudoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd075ecfae4---43207447514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5bfaefbef6e9bdd06a01e3323c0d01/9670018825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32951f7a86546968f6b57e61bbaa93eb/bagixekopeduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/fegasejukiwisejazazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/46081709842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rb5qfs8uonj8ogat9nnaq9ds3g/bubigig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mad9kel6tvnudb2mbh9plh7124/finagewakimevituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///navoridevivevazejugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074373453007---vasotesalovumireroxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/puzererosuxuzikikegopejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/fuzudabijawulasatedaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/22554004450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/wedebogafoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=brothers+and+sisters+have+i+none+riddle+answerPDF 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_off0000dcfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f515.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF515 10552 bytes
SHA-256: db2d28119f80a8f1d2a146444e8981021315d8c5536cb0a2a308c09499c1e3dc
font_02_sfnt_off00010d2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2D 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 7bab8f7d406242afc4852854cf50072e30e08ed9b22082f33f3fea0ee17db99f