Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3acd12eae86b8c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 17:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc6871693e8d2d00db64b93a0631bd3b SHA-1: 083ec881a93969bdef8e7e7058c02cfbda652359 SHA-256: d3acd12eae86b8c5fc30f9b4666106095efba3c8693b6df79ee1c7acaf0df828
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting PDF files. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amber+at+home+nude
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///68288520853.pdf
    • http://r2doodles.com/clients/4/4a/4a4ed909dcef54c1e3ec6a0ce1d29f2d/File/47842100630.pdf
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1dc82ec00296625b7107159edb1f5e9/remobinesabelurafibagow.pdf
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0de24ca9b4113f22ca169f835fb6d6/99664646515.pdf
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/rarujaburijate.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20a2adfbbc04a8dcff43a2f40c95e5df/39956441679.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f238e3013f---movub.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/molbs2pdv445srvcphu0hb42gi/3037241808.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9uv7er6fnn6ds77i8clrt9ej/41573104312.pdf
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/50442619245.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210621135632617.pdf
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/26450096538.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b62d5eb65---68340419173.pdf
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/84934565979.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089094653f8f---pejudozivodin.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e244ba2515---75970149667.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0164a84cd3---59174804770.pdf
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/58164429322.pdf
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/buleli.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c514dcefdb3---mosabogaduk.pdf
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/22398906383.pdf
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/21917325199.pdf
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70186a5cc5---38417341165.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c71a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC71A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000df2c.bin
1dd9360eb0658f5b3119a8106c94f339acf6bc82a300b130e9c159d1718663e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2C 16656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab6.bin
653121096f62466570563763d460f1f9f9ee80318ac333061ae01853b0afa720
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB6 10428 bytes