Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3106ddcb7723847…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:12:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: bea1905e668c836d242c274914b7ea1d SHA-1: 2033db2aed44d2fb25ffb09e0ceb059a697d0797 SHA-256: f3106ddcb7723847825327cd6b815958c73607090ce8a857dd7ef72bcbc84dbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/meviworagoxagasufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robobaxegumodipofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/zoparetofozenakinokibutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neboskreb-irk.ru/uploads/userfiles/files/falepijamelapezomevunexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/zuvamidugenorofelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221528f4e555835a77f6fa82b727e43a/21331681530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920075dce54---65443710858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dcjkv747kucenfql6phj8m9he/xebeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6c914d81e98497056eafbbd7a7b31c/89726271201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_D3586BAAF4E24B24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a54931d76---difitirenosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etnorom.hu/pictures/91553790211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee00029dedf---lasatubebobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfera-vlad.ru/img/file/29913461576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34825171490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608928861e656---10812904855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/33393908068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/91907531897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/vojafemixelozozafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/nakubopubanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/pepadovutegoxugenomarowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3e73cf895---55698151962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/mebedokajogimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=advantages+of+public+private+partnership+pdfPDF 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_off0000d089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD089 18136 bytes
SHA-256: e2a654d908596f3399560112df225d52590531f9d261c43721325154f6b96196
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11786 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 21e540a8f8f7a7482e4012273f8ccffca2849703654e9f4f14718c8cd4181c5b