Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a3363b94d9f99dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 09:07:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 630994d67db00e5d5015e5fcd5e6fdda SHA-1: ed89dec9456fb7d76a1dd2acdf3885cf57851eee SHA-256: 1a3363b94d9f99dd96586ee3e81bafcc50eff789ffb3b70e86b975bc0d8b6c52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised domains hosting PDF files is a strong indicator of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

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://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91fee22126---22282053009.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc86df0a31---bamuzezosuwuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/733e57e7b17be0f5df9250f857257f79/pozumevexibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf35b2b9d3---jawuragirejofipuguwuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be9d8f24fce81cc2c3fb71d451da11c/gaxoduzemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abcc5bb9b86a06d7d2915d3bd616517f/17711613013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf35c47ad5---demukumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6d08gf01hsdufmbo75241vqnr/tenopajoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/xorivumupanileridezesisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b6c053e25---vasukidobilegegolidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/35016563897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/dukexefilufuzukivisataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/nimetazevuwojepolesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f43c35857---jonofipuniliparijujako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6a6b9835b4ec43970bbea9efedd0c5/61590322318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/bosadadefusovuzuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/92538293406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/karogiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/didumaruraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87be77dc48b48a36ee325816be6eb9e/86756761080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/mulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/raranonapamubosipaxede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtuhaqpbvp75qhddm8srvusnsl/48433580399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/33489139547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=map+based+cloningPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011d9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9E 4432 bytes
SHA-256: 898213f5ea87f5ee60bd8753c329901582bebcebee985568af8635c9429cef13
font_01_sfnt_off00012e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E22 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 8eb236d6ba4ebd3969ab44c47d2dfc8ef0cf0ca050acb60745f4be047dcf3331
font_02_sfnt_off00015c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C34 10624 bytes
SHA-256: b9eb894330c9e137c6ea89d0bc438aacd22c04421c41314a07d3c9ef1c2c2dd8
font_03_sfnt_off00017424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17424 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1