Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3f95018ad626305…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-22 05:20:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa3ab0d68c3e691044aa507cf1c4a500 SHA-1: 84bf9d157a43f385b079f7e2aa329bce8e8c49a7 SHA-256: f3f95018ad6263058b341b74ac3c292ccfd62f4b7729204d530457d09cc90ea6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea60j705vn2cgikqm0ne65jfs0/xazikepujiritekudadilemiv.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb6c4c8da19622fa8712243622e454b/30262035971.pdf
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/wudilumunuladidizezotir.pdf
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/23864877000.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d4b8273c8---nomikakixukazo.pdf
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110ac3de239b---28159658880.pdf
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/81304603102.pdf
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/nokitafoli.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8773aec05---79359746738.pdf
    • http://museeducuir.org/upload/files/73193721190.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3868daf5dd---18570442308.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6a15c383c---54711613609.pdf
    • http://vamaconsulting.sk/userfiles/file/nitevarigapis.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec53e11119c0d468b123237e804fd9f2/85017610596.pdf
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202107101209371830.pdf
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/6836046291.pdf
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97866419fc62b0815cd97b22c0c4aad5/pimaretamubive.pdf
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cb9d2e9f7---85249776908.pdf
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/83027484386.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc24c0d26f---39473442611.pdf
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/28696036954.pdf
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/5785369429.pdf
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefupurumavawipedipu.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c521ec5beaa---30108272565.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ff933756f---70719955897.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+prevent+waterborne+diseases
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebc9.bin
50f3f231ef0c33794ab8ae83ee9c4303988b2927a3b6bd6bbe0d69e60f26e05c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC9 10624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010408.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10408 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c1a.bin
7f30664573d056b7a647655ea4cfed9a0c8ef0b2a6369153953fd845bf985bb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1A 16168 bytes