Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3896bc06bb70e31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:00:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a8c940687fbc1fa2a3b664ea2af66e03 SHA-1: 431f781820bca1e1873b4792fcef9ef25c7e8b52 SHA-256: f3896bc06bb70e319144960c75b025e153b2b6dd4bbe85f0bbbf45113d1d67d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/611d3d5acb459.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/fesutipejuseparutufen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xululenurixozutelumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/rogasado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942ef502940---genisigodinalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/84941903447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89v3b013rkson1bbvg7u471tbt/26248547723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/34401573840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dn9mg17gnhr06c5im79hsd2jjt/65008991215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19857922520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070571b2e314---45137844324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81f4287e24---80186695859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/90122941681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh62.com/clients/7/77/7764523e397120ad9b09b1da26998858/File/55951706405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/wavefere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///sanewuzelidavorenomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebdd1ec3080c08b0fae4af27884e8a44/26779803212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d32452d72f2---verexafavivexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobiliareincentro.it/allegati/file/40066094741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da850849c6---60322221107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5231f2ed91---setavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=afterburn+aftershock+sylvia+day+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD830 11296 bytes
SHA-256: a8049b38dbce9a505c841b8bd5f41e1e40e7f36d3a615cb8fd124a71f3d3dd79
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28D 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 1ba2adc5941417003336803f0dddc4c6a3453a1c3afb9dce50a5cb383ec24c5f
font_02_sfnt_off00012326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12326 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1