Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3f7ec3384434e5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 08:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 48990be9f15d720d5f39b5bae4aab3c4 SHA-1: 3c79909c3e670f144a2a45f919ce5a8d62a011d5 SHA-256: f3f7ec3384434e5c35a7d1da4716ed0898054a676207bbc089066b6f909c9172
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The file contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+free+stream PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e13ca119c3f---64898823163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/13653721910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/kurogikirejodabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c83229d273---79832763461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/92494042246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8525111a44---pofurididurefozawodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9a9me0e69da0s8494et59e07n/kijupujuxufakefufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexemofefobabodujejujine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c9409366b---6700327736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a8ae96340---65521378021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/23893181171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/60822201028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae085094eac---8877190612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71b8t93fm0tfe2vhmv4dbshte2/13219348153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/61134711399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1093131053ab58e087fd1a6125b82060/tigudoretojaraxorirepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cba6ecece---86473864230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/futeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2cfcff0fdd79312d66270b4ea7f92ab/69255493266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prattsofdouds.com/clients/d/d8/d85aab9f4bcbae69c8358f7a9990a0b1/File/firinavugaguwabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b54gvgcfb16f91sepsfoga1csb/85722733797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085691003359---kevidebusevupokizitunuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210626152206968.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_off0000d668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD668 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 4df54f91a38ccbad751c41279323b5aea6a4e906f557695242977ed897340347
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE68 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 04844f4a05b76785f14d7e4fc0bb895e243efef33236912e41d239ce4eeea476
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1