Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3026833021a06afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-09 20:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d3440d5a8765b0017234d86a98279e61 SHA-1: bf010d1a694051ff878afb256fb748c9423f800f SHA-256: 3026833021a06afe5fd7863c8971c698c51d3976262f65cc996e0acb75f8dbbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings point to a malicious link farm designed to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+of+all+possible+worlds PDF link annotation
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9a3dkotkmibu07tii7ou7p003/sarowotodulemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772c5a31ecdf4ed5590c0e01aa595fde/xinunovuludupuzasetubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi7ecd50cn9p02iq37mqbvnthu/zilovozupixarafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/zasejoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62b87b4992---puribowusigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/2630149814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/jugevovabukipilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e8a27717f13e02aacada649dba7a84/57486096420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/87730116094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47ccf7a0e7---fimumesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udk62b4qfh6p5svjf7s06hsjct/rujelinatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/90748787573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aedbeb412fa---48746308356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e69f399955d---10732460811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de9215d090---63482029419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/668a44c00394ab88adc43aa4780d10b8/65110431144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/48827194660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f79842de63d623da28d7bacb04a18b4e/18910340479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/nikojabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/17072841726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e90d5108b---linulizowokopisaleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/28493975203.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_off0000ff16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF16 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 6b39b58889895752e8a45a99c354a94b589174496103edbae354db52a2b15391
font_01_sfnt_off00012a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4B 10680 bytes
SHA-256: a6b8fd954d9d16c2be15c5b38eb75e5e53ab535509ed81710a488809e8cb14fd
font_02_sfnt_off000142c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1