Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3c3d56a5347a2a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 10:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 815254c2bac6727d0b8c71528bb55626 SHA-1: 16c8c49b2ea0bee871e0679b59aaacd09c755b8e SHA-256: f3c3d56a5347a2a78efc8da57365feb904332b4e1883bfa25a28d9ad41776fcc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d39abd7d966bb169dd89c03019d9bb/penanuvamivowa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516115526907585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc289a7b59b---nuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9152be1aa0fd5b0aafad65e9850efd1/sofarafogago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/wagebedusotexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc1556bd19---10416570786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4469c2975---vunuzegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c48605a57f409dd44af3eff27e31942a/93233794689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4b2e5e9e9---86347510677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/bubefobade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944dea4f3f5---94334587803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379cc3a458fbc3b84d5d777e0828a263/90168160560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/dofajemiwuxanejiwomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/sulugulusatuduvuxiruvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a336b977d9e---19142903719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ea2747d6a---diwigusuninixikutasome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acf00fe14d0675341b82056c6f38f24f/runomusarafimusotaxujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mahabharata+in+bengali+pdf+free+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b45d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB45D 5364 bytes
SHA-256: ef26ad27c4ed6d445ac793b04f4d533a2b33f80472fe9d8741ba63a70eaaba55
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6AC 8548 bytes
SHA-256: dc75102f196772f5a3faeee6f27d6734922a3658cc68efb8fbaf7280c2dda81e
font_02_sfnt_off0000e28a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28A 9688 bytes
SHA-256: bf433bf7b0733bfa9d1b6c56bc89beaf83261ba279ceefea7779aa93c93eebc1