Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3c8b58aa342b366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: d74cb16ffb0f5f361d2be70a5ca3a9d2 SHA-1: 37d742e8235ea370d72bff53a3570d46bdf6a5ee SHA-256: f3c8b58aa342b366f050584648b0cbd611fd2783f3d6decb6f896435afb70540
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 0.9972

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+i+concise+crossword+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971f9721aec---zuzikiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/6546832540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be612ffdbcd1a84d0232e16c0b9a5ad8/nilolepokoluzero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5269d3e05---2459155892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilarutuduxosufijeladeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/dipojeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74332c4de869f08f6f0bcb2f040333ba/jofusoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/122337372865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609470c17ea00---442767415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/732ecb65cd8cdf5c331a81e97c34228b/jafawawelixojodadinujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db085b047e---98079902624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/fazena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodrago.eu/userfiles/files/34753449956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b281973842---38848482555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e22474362---31054734478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6abc5c34c---sanadubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a042c30bd25---46394526467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7d89af4d14f3b4e6d9b0991c4d1e52/tafuforaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca41a71820---wetijisozoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/68024638702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/zusefo.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_off0000ef27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF27 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 21a6d0eca7acbcb40e4d1740171567fd0f1dc73c400065a1a7fe029b6a641f84
font_01_sfnt_off00011ba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA7 10372 bytes
SHA-256: d662e92359ccff953bb8020d87276d857575db37ad93dfc6ba7a1de3769d2eee
font_02_sfnt_off00013320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13320 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1