Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd3cca8ec4e8dfb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3d1e814177f00c96d9ed2eb54c4e0cab SHA-1: 1ec289e9d9cd4cb175ac89a0dc76cd8b7b528225 SHA-256: dd3cca8ec4e8dfb00d0f067e621e0e2de14639fb6b41cf9217b5245d089d1496
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. These URLs are likely intended to redirect the user to phishing sites or download further malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the conclusion that this document is part of a link farm designed for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+rid+of+system+storage+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/80140316813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/laligizevivokipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/zudigebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d86f9db62---bekorafamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/26457945520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advairtech.eu/assets/userfiles/file/5119971374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aahs.givingplan.net/sites/default/files/editor/file/ruvutevizatafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/viburuxefapebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/51427241554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrier.exma.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64781792740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toszegisuli.hu/userfiles/file/puvetasituvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://33podarka.ru/pictures/files/98976617585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10424094655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4680f71a723ae5f993a75a6d7ce6285/gifisewopizuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/36890925098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/zusuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/72097933320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/11272706889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423e9d88499---16230276779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/95402714716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356b03737a5---xosifolabamuginevorived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16988172146.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_off0000d36c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD36C 18252 bytes
SHA-256: 3ea960da55ef78908a1ce5bcb4073e86e1c6fa0abcbda92e2671a97832ff31c3
font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032C 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 00612ea16af83ad8dcb81d71a9cdeab3471e013b7baed6485b286073ad02d5b8
font_02_sfnt_off00011c08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1