Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3e1a35a457b4251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 21f76dff3cdbbbcd4a7a17f0c2be6e27 SHA-1: 8a7a20d62d17bf2a5d62b74f1667c147944fc8e2 SHA-256: f3e1a35a457b4251b7bd46ac11f6802ff17a31390d5be045b60762e67ea9fa8a
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 0.9974

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://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f96e5cc63---25073170867.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/pikasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/zikalikewuvujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/68148168502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/65670533848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-19/20210719110049548641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/19940093124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/tutomovoluxatipuwetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/kowevifakexejemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99132139087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/5628099415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vesimport.ru/userfiles/file/41355154738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1a04f0593---webakogajoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/pepisozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717fa84faa0---12704054167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096944c04fe5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5b5dm213o526cub554d5kubgn/97897863196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f72dd1361---24635494086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8a0g290lg6fb3dmd5nk4vr27m/kalufogujumome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/19598349926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roboribodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/100e6b6a28f7d6d934f2a25e52c60aaf/83294192741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39452592676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/nozerubux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=verbos+en+ingles+presente+pasado+futuro+pdfPDF 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_off0000df9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9E 19564 bytes
SHA-256: 85b1808a40e34af2ec41d125eeb06ba44349fb4a4f40f0137e55d285982c6078
font_01_sfnt_off00010f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5E 10884 bytes
SHA-256: a67b07412773a0c32ac4afba06d8a6b75f9f6a3bccc10b957d8cf9953135b996
font_02_sfnt_off00012841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12841 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1