Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3f3aa651b59e881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-10-08 02:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: b9206c25a4ca1fd6a021f46cb1d7e23b SHA-1: 2732436860161b32469d470f0dc6f293c850f7c6 SHA-256: c3f3aa651b59e881bd17c186be0f34b329e9886af6f257548449394c6bb753cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous URLs, including those with 'utm_term' parameters suggesting tracking, points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=murder+mystery+game+answers+the+hunt PDF link annotation
    • https://cantarefides.ro/admin/userfiles/file/68474300545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmrs.ps/userfiles/file/44353041018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtt-association.fr/upload/file/62396652664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hh0b97d8is16e.com/userData/board/file/fitozosulizoximilokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pure-chiral.com/upload/files/66502570719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/rivetosazetajumenizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312f6e4d2e0---dakojitinexomomozewanopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/zuwegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210929164544_d7h1n1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613557f7be7c4---77339856418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614290c485a1a---sifukopobabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5d6c4ae6b---2338891853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanna-drive.nl/files/File/rutexovorutejutuxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toscanafantastica.com/userfiles/file/boforukajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22431766730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventechsite.com/files/files/53002403599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/41434465039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86657590369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/jixojixumaletomurobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/samivetodigoriloriteraxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/52561959915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commsoft.nu/demo/ktb/wsmbilder/files/nexalikexowigewodukiribux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolozogutivasuku.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_off0000d311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD311 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB23 18760 bytes
SHA-256: 4ada96507a5b784e5f6dbd1b471042d1ef44908379269d4ae4a036ba18efb44c
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2B 10732 bytes
SHA-256: f279d6040eae9070d0ead5c8e26467fa6aa55aa35f77be7e004867e79e0d47fb