Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3277bfae21502ef0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3ca64ecebea32913d3700d9f2add1c80 SHA-1: 6731179d6ad411577e2bc57f730cfad2b7b2665e SHA-256: 3277bfae21502ef04c07f4c83027d092489b66b45b9f4d9aa42a412664feed2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click these links, likely leading to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9797

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://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/67774124830.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/18887975801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608516a6b574d---meluwuwebonavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39a4036fd4---7498972167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a35f02d57---pipuzovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/lapedenirusagerulube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/49396511485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph5ojh6nkj8qguk41ju1grmet2/gebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb340477323---21829493212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/38282887585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/13808433882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bd154845242b29c2fa113bafd2d4740/4663637127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee6f2e415afcf40b61907028b529ec0c/62481612561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/34956613609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2eb201929---39741827893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf1e4745a3---50196522292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/5860556906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5510447b3efe426ced013e172b73e643/vexosigoruzugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6tc7jf26l8188s6kh0bkf1us6/dolirogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2e70443c1---71140033861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/72967600274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/tiwexitusilopifunonadirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2c9bptp75mrl259l4l6qt0iv6/figozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/60993834027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/40863028724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c59d19df0857158389640587d46348/vuvilotovezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=rational+zeros+of+a+polynomialPDF 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_off000140a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000158be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158BE 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 010365ab0cb40db04dd140aeb0b4f09cd33a6bee4959e7401d7ed96529a27b4e
font_02_sfnt_off0001717f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1717F 19248 bytes
SHA-256: e7b0057cbdb67c24d47f81174fef11cf20ec9ee53d8b4f516a7f4d1fe58a83d3