Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3153ae70f632ceb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8f37efb1ec908c2240cfbb371916f564 SHA-1: 2d4c85e45d1491a24e3501504abdebc8cd4c2f3c SHA-256: f3153ae70f632ceb892aed96ed2c018ccad068f3076c5e52910d2395a8aaa964
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms and compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards an attack pattern involving directing users to malicious sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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=men%27s+salon+open+near+me PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvoxixeliwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/bonuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltdb.com/UserFiles/files/lonigaworetuserekumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613831ddcfa97---texoramuropavenefemozewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/dukalufatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/dekedexidanudajisus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613394d111af0---liniruvuvaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76937234894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/bajimiwijafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/lokobebuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a5187f8a7d5df0a37b9ade67910e64/zuvamir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210909225350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savemaxint.com/files/file/gerelowesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/kewofekivunosoduxerovafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gevenschoenen.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74932901364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fge-service.com/userfiles/file/28544551707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/78252505760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a702a2da97---41711663430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88051403727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/26902057374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/26516652109.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_off0000b9b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1C9 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 3a10d82108e4eaca46311cf3ecf321bc519e1029faafc8224dc0d9ba64054ed3
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE69 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 8897258b76202ba36029f0172390c4ea83fbd645708c6eb2e3735924e961f4da