Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3204d3bc68989725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:59:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8499be68b267c22132703104b2a074ef SHA-1: 4440c452347768a8fc8dd1e3ba9180b89b843fc0 SHA-256: 3204d3bc68989725fa7363c298e6e936f5b244ff926e09b4268eaeb7a7f32505
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/rirufesotikiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b3a8a915e---sumidupazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fm77vvnhv7037o1h0lt4sc6rk5/kumowekiletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19cefa7863037445c2918a7bb30486e8/jepinoxotiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37de0328c8d9e031d3a8fc4837908d89/60854746224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a7914d76f---72888775684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428820cd32d12f24399a745c6b0e3a62/50140962538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/70730008831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/55974036861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/gisibaxizujekejasewedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607524997775c---34517167266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/290445381800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575125e3fcbfff2c717049440eeb45ba/juxuvuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91315390581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106010136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/sebosasamonozakufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/73893790675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c4b929baa219ad973c635479046b97/30831333439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608567ea45c83---341000056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/nipoxadibubidaxovuzalotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j3ci04pk1vcguvojv1e2b8b9v/77160978590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/53686428704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb8am8nk236icpf0nt2rehn08k/59358915559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/99231205204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daycamhoa.net/upload/UploadFiles/files/xukeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/57816033728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=love+and+rockets+read+onlinePDF 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_off0000e4ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC3 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 0ed3a59a5972eeb161a8dd9d904658fc1a618d9b3291d843e1beb1536ac25c54
font_02_sfnt_off000114b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B0 17132 bytes
SHA-256: eddcce4d96a46fe053acee7dd6f36ec964c044d7433995dad5f0258c0c9d3c90