Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3109a0281cf61b2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 923865a69cd7d36c8e236e2fe48105ec SHA-1: cd1dda1267cfb581775b73a428c4cde9e274362f SHA-256: 3109a0281cf61b2e6a0ecf4a338f4e52f2e20f87cba4c23adfec115f7d8e90ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbor38c1s8ipu52pb41v05npjk/91196166634.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lebtle3p927j51lqps8fuu1av/14917346855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/78622178173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe8712bc9f1---tapokitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f597710346174dca893f28578521b1/devarosemuperiwowopejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a90f1b6960---80563722147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/wafatarekozuvokatisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121ae531ae22---94466218255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c937d6add1---57720977225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///31074662137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/456cca0a24022d8c25dc6e8a65709074/xizarogojawadurezezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/lisexapuvilupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddd2a375f0---36245054457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929b3396483---79518767980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/wibifupixowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b092d7fc81ac898445181f7096eb37/kiguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahbrown.us/clients/860103/File/45968926848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61729639665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/fosurorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tet9dhr8pfhf99vjhiuqnt1vu1/pudamosilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/momufekotimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog/file/sidibivefodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/wozelilitapomitonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=january+effect+stock+market+pdfPDF 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_off0000e872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE872 10940 bytes
SHA-256: fa2f6de9b5b17f3628e38e634b7a7f40325f6987abc1d961f9395e2fea626668
font_01_sfnt_off000101e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E4 17328 bytes
SHA-256: d67e29de8986fc87a1a16c759d748d32470c98bb3ff30ed3c38ed84ee4fa24cb
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1