Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3e31e4e39c91ce6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-10-20 05:58:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 151e3d796bb35ddac744eb2b85988e6e SHA-1: 2efa98e8790ce451fbcc6f3f5cf9d7144195eebb SHA-256: f3e31e4e39c91ce6fe1bae5792c28a812738a57ebab6d66b0c8e238584ae3614
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/66368525912.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bakersfield.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/54009377603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40720842182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346eccf0542---14712380381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zonewufigopifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/55529336875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16169f4ebd15a6---tepajitafaxumatumulex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95284344717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/96152795179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/15928988269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/8791967017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelfoundation.ca/userfiles/file/fobaruritejogofigafuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84766610164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/36042523566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinocastillo.hu/editor_up/wudopina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-the-markmarketing.onthemarkmarketing.com/userfiles/file/20454059105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///jurefefelawoxonusud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61974c3c962d23a53c328d2b900a11b7/79171937626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93246256695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109020824053757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eko-briketes.lv/userfiles/files/zonuwukesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49536055637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toflight.mobi/attachment/ckeditor/files/8efe8761a8e33534083e1e2aef07c944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/xPAns0MRe5M/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+shin+budokai+6+ppsspp+englishPDF 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_off0000e07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07C 17036 bytes
SHA-256: c9acf3cf977921e272a6649b4c65e4607744addcd77272b8487387d6e5593a86
font_01_sfnt_off00010c8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C8B 11072 bytes
SHA-256: cf462338af68441c1f788a39f88389d4922c87917fe9cc0a6fbd35cdfd86e22f
font_02_sfnt_off000125cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1