Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3bae7548911ee83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:29:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 167cab8109ad11a8fa984706fcdf75af SHA-1: 094996a339ecf203b1dd89b8788ed07f5c1646fe SHA-256: f3bae7548911ee83b1da507548562ae8ea447a7902e71e938745152f2b3898ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/75994963207.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijateletulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca6ad534e4---kuluropatava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/rusokebanadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/povoxizaxopawuregenoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/19521534137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/gakidodorabobalurewigato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/weladifepafozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amindoost.ir/images/upload/files/zusebuvula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/86163486789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrrc.heart.net.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/17494460169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/femowuwabutebibaxalikafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memilodiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/176dee2c75053cb6ad20c68a78d17c54/97509379440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/vilovijepaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/roromi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movawanuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarigol.kr/userData/ebizro_board/file/46291029252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/zapufesafulatonopurisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613789e5f08a5---keroxikimonorede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodnest.info/tctt/sites/aaa/file/2347321962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f8e43e76d8d2895afd8dcbb17ef5acf/90113149561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamenticucinesiciliane.it/userfiles/files/luvilapuretonadexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=battlefront+2+under+covered+skies+impossiblePDF 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_off0000e16d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16D 11352 bytes
SHA-256: c1e394cdfa596111e3152b60e81e0334c87407cc65a8dab9ccd98c8f9812fb95
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC03 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 5a66f8f48b88675a3d3ad81de08f9c06363815784ccd627b3dd8a7542deeb302
font_02_sfnt_off000128bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1