Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3fbaa44b00fd358…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 68f19c52cbb3eae0dabbdf542c7b8527 SHA-1: ce28e584fcd8017fb2e81279e406ab096b35cb88 SHA-256: f3fbaa44b00fd3583ef2ad2ba13f1c21719d9bdf3a1f690916065eb7d4acbdf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, many with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+ringtone+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210901050041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/69700875568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///85535518035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/25405147613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/bowivomabolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d78d28be0b---51563911019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/36726244906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/xovamoxaxajuzepusovubifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canissapiens.com/images/uploads/file/6608763242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161490d0e2dbe9---keriroxiluwajizijubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49143973144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/FCKeditor/file/diletimilozizobepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46708987172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/855572081a0f556dea8b52cab7c98d7e/soxumavarodupolozoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czminghe.com/upload/files/juxidogura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/22997170367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613414eae9034---wupixipudagumewuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/wubarebabowenero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/2227274760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baiduvpn.com/upload/files/25190020687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/40393161193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.org/editor_up/46623152739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/29476612406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/koxikesepomalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khmernative-rice.com/userfiles/file/61417312612.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_off0000e86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86F 17620 bytes
SHA-256: ef95790d36ca6b8ba80598fee9752b0b6bfe04987a8a816e550ba6e58f5ba842
font_01_sfnt_off00011682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11682 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E99 10704 bytes
SHA-256: df301141db8f62f5fa6ef29269532a6e500052fedafe2c6a7857caf2d3fd23b5