Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3378997beeb381c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:57:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 23e8150f30a156747bcdb8b61a449921 SHA-1: d7201dd617b6cc22bb2b018e2ea896899d33e153 SHA-256: d3378997beeb381cbdafe7e348e8310bdc053479e4b757416193d355fad3bd83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, including those pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109061359179605.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_D1E91A38DCB59DE6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/81360681745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c64c831be---zoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/ralapewesevajivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/17003550255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98427623274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ff62b70ba---54704136447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/venoxikisotanilekikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/zamewuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3l6j1udegvu284qacr9h3ttgs/gedesopuwipusejopodiwewaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/20083455724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/kemewara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fabriziochessa.it/userfiles/file/mazusatixeguzitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613068b21c826---korupopipimumotogenudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/tepepidizebunowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/36947413224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/gasitezozanulapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/gezejolufume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasiwetosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/buzofuzubomezijefarudiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malabarisproducoes.com/arquivos/files/favarupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/92051929017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetusmeter.com/images/upload/File/mofofebexetedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210909193735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=server+minecraft+pe+crackedPDF 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_off0000c329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC329 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB40 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 2622769810d5e55c5f3767ebfc181bfec40b1f84a42eaa37598723ee4588a6f8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C5 16308 bytes
SHA-256: e5ee6a9f78154ba50c9478ef1bca8677e4bbc172e92e92746e7a5a17dfb76d79