Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3258c1c36cb8850e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:44:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fd00dfe6ca421a60c58fb465f8f9ec14 SHA-1: 0c46f7fe65a7b9c79351ab9281cc135ad28aa1b4 SHA-256: 3258c1c36cb8850eaadc164f9d56b0190c69b1e2908b2c0240406269604feb8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a malicious attachment to a site that further redirects them.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076745bed282---putageludubureb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/92972479291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803bb00e1bd---juxijuziwixamaduzamekuwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/96265314291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb35125fd6d---44447172338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://join-angel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94421183614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610eedfe70684---63902277841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e24aa820d---sobudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0739b1ec6a79f0a6e24fde11d004a52b/23713878531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210728_063404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/87246000509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/99872892717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/bomujozujapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d694764cad6---80668082342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/036acf311cbf278f41e08d8ef835d58b/xoziduvukokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806934abd9c---89171578915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/porupegozorime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b68d73f78---kepegaxapubonowefugapaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fondationmonetoile.org/clients/0/0e/0ecfe6182781ff486fe5156d2e85c11d/File/sefatitovalibuwesewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/diluzunasito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/bapelizegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960e15ed79a---nukegasejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7343efa86acab68355baf400285477c5/vakudibiwaxenebagajijixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hs92rjvblhhkc2q0isc9hedq14/toxasokorekupupajeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ae1ca2e3bd1012a5e4eaf2579bfd9c/nopujipovapimojotiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cl41m065vkv8u27dhk8rku0260/73992491506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839465672ae---kekewirazalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=castle+nut+dimensions+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_off0000e75a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE75A 10692 bytes
SHA-256: c4cdc722fe4ec2f900623909a627bfa0d992ee392cb97dbaf594e7f69ed7d52c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD6 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 9d4739edfc2efa430d62cdc17835eb02e19db0daa5fd43b61d79a1b25fe084a2
font_02_sfnt_off00012e74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1