Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3dac43d1ffc037b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.0 KB Created: 2021-08-08 09:07:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a893ae87a15996c2bb8e822ed6637a7b SHA-1: 6522bca3068a9db3e10a87fe07db0d64f1cde64a SHA-256: f3dac43d1ffc037bd49961c898c44e15bae70498208a1ad9167b5fb05fc57cb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs, some pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/levixujirapetarasozir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/85136521075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0879b56985---voxumerikenuvukadagikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5392165cb197255cd61f61f6b7bd9ab6/60825248344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9ba68f5d47db2146211a3b5e24fedf8/vimevutofemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/latofazowowefujibuvavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/rabagewonunixipizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caa37439facffd66b09f24d85e70277e/61293566282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/16617175222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/malesomitimujami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/57659107996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/87932705176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/dapabinusapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/daluvapaliwonapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/37226512500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/xavadusabokadezavimija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542bd4f6ee04fbc1c62b057fdef1d70f/27967111978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33ad54fec4---51258185383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609833fdcd27d---rirovasimijaxoziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a092ffb4a3b---80681361957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/gugawasazifuvegaxakasudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/lomiguvonokifoxekuxadoduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7498cee59---gijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cbeeff8604704ce2f3c6dbf0f3ab6f2/pexokodumatofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+residencia+fiscal+en+mexicoPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161041f5c11b75---75762951623.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_off0001a47a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A47A 18324 bytes
SHA-256: 8608fd5ae56de5b915554c5694308fdf5803b060234f160d39871150b177dd3d
font_01_sfnt_off0001d29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D29A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001eab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EAB1 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 327c7b42875d6c9b65d78bc861a7047ce19df418055f9557537923e283aa0b86