Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3054addcfe2c02f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 01:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f4abc4dab0ce1dce91ba746ac4adf1b4 SHA-1: d059631f8e0a1ef6c2fddcf00cc21171f9a67aa0 SHA-256: 3054addcfe2c02f7b0feac4b098fab5afb8ce9414f402c388802260dad0fe3cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host malicious links rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d1f65b1cf---18687994567.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v97c0bjqk6gno78hv91jo5724g/78936188404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f480de502a5---mumubepejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210710_030537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u5k2jv7in5la46bc1v8mc7sk4/92886516584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosawejoziraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/zewowebalamoputufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/juzupizixaligevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d6cf2071ec7736336dbda6e25925793/122898164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/50414332975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/xagabomizibivatawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvmnotarissen.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/47235821202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611084e1d1f83---bojixibolugaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/81305734792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/68369234523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/ninedezitenoguwudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/74368545120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3668b0573---tasiribobodusumuxideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/gekipoberalexupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/98564003071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/5408176016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/561103059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jusazelinekukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c42726aff6---38552353186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=good+names+for+a+monstrous+nightmarePDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001b903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B903 17300 bytes
SHA-256: e83c7866d39620baa575e2b594db71bd80d9c19b98f90bd9c912763e2ddf83f0
font_01_sfnt_off0001e627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E627 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001fe3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FE3E 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 13a22c10d5b45a3a1a9a1b02736f1b8f71dcfd193209f6362ebb17f9e8d20dbf