Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3f762c14e44cf67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 21:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 64fcc571e21235ee8726090a190710b6 SHA-1: df1a2b61779beffb427435101a464c95c6612dbe SHA-256: e3f762c14e44cf67716ed5ba4bf287e11f0892177447ccfde078d31e1e937d33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, some hosted on what appear to be compromised CMS upload directories, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute further 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://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/56174297687.pdf
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1630805191.pdf
    • https://loonbedrijfschimmel.nl/userfiles/files/99872408503.pdf
    • http://motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32081537901.pdf
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/3911738027.pdf
    • http://munnarteabungalows.com/userfiles/file/74893513867.pdf
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/wavekotov.pdf
    • http://kancelaria-perfect.pl/app/webroot/media/files/fosevafevebilatisitamida.pdf
    • https://gkscam.com/userfiles/file/69958185924.pdf
    • http://parvazyab.net/basefile/api203/files/9284244795.pdf
    • http://inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujowenorupuripejilizalel.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/rupujazusevupajivazisike.pdf
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kikutet.pdf
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/22324465254.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb11ac72894eff9687eaa1e2b17c989/wolel.pdf
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/rugonofago.pdf
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/14228930853.pdf
    • http://jayeonrak.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/tijuwetezu.pdf
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/xalizupod.pdf
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/mavadofijumexixu.pdf
    • https://www.renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67164857299.pdf
    • http://orlickachata.cz/files/files/motugatesovewudubovizef.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6naa62e48gq3p4d5bmv72lcs2/80563883816.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145e1a777b62---pazijiwamigurotagosulufaj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+language+pack
    • 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_off0000bcb5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCB5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4c7.bin
6d37554fc50c1c8d90868c1708939702eebcc7e7fbea21ec057160be9bff8ac2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C7 17164 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000100f1.bin
4c0320cde90435f9b39d270b9154ef2dff8e654dc333917f6650011787e4b188
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F1 10864 bytes