Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3162a0128071fd52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:07:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 10a7ad039df2f74f9ab03e918cad8fd1 SHA-1: 4a3f5139bef259f2909744d4ddaecd67a3e02ae1 SHA-256: 3162a0128071fd521f66d8e0c13a623c4be3a4902bc543461f6d39727727890c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. This structure indicates the file is designed to act as a link farm, likely to distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

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 http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086051934cf0---84824849883.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/nibume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca93382000---58184702174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c71cdb0f0---25460212524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/54065997226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobinco.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61814031037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d67281f7c083840512c6128187a68b/81189319417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/3552510332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aea57072735294b61eccfb432b5d8a4/sosegifodizefabefusojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050222233573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/pezuwoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/55363582994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b9df6ca61---95473635569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/21857513519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/46139805199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071303fab8af---vuloremezosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/416054869d385e4de9ad1b62ca6663f4/sarerav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/fitofuvirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emailing-online.fr/uploads/userfiles/file/lebagazutusemalajafijirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perseverance.cyou/updatefiles/file/92773115768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudojonogukikagivobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/fazasugomaluropejerimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d58599b11ea---16804982861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/9434237021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beab3a8f603---wozuxujevokamavegegeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=product+design+and+development+karl+ulrich+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_off0000ddcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCB 18820 bytes
SHA-256: f492ecd8ab3ebe6675b9804e2f9d7bc277f2d34a6485c9e4d20f9fc0564ec889
font_01_sfnt_off00010ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ED7 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 4188daa1b8d85f796e4ba381b8a32653b94879e9b84ea5d1760bd30ddee8ab0b
font_02_sfnt_off0001291f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1291F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1