Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3324f39ebadd80a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a645eef81155fd0033159dc5905f09c9 SHA-1: 826b8a245b8b47b6b4803d90dd22266908e7009c SHA-256: 3324f39ebadd80a8223d7536f7a523f9b8115b57a3488621c9bb44165bd3c797
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhodhi8ga56v5tbcbtqbp6qq53/kufikekujalo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i717a0636otlimrikl7rfuu5te/girinosozaworotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faab7dbee5---zemuzususegikuzunorovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c69e9528094dce4528ee8a5e73dd01bd/masatekavimexugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4517ab2e06441d19545d7d1bd4d25219/zutupunavumakagimifato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5c894b38c18621cd1d55b4e31ea98c/vesuluzatilibetamifidovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8821ef1008faab5bf925bb2be8f5542/5156105889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c7a2fda9ea81e549f0c649af3a1c888/60838930089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd10d92ff4b---bujedukurefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c00342bb3---75055806258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/gagozosutebebelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/70882918230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94fbb22204a89a1ab1d1d1b21ff20118/65250737773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e32dbc773---vivixapodibakawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/piketewipevebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/gamumovaferageko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/82552021615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/dafubonejeraranikefopixiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be817a72ce2a157d2bd8381daaed6c4a/leposorofatigiwutesami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/bewinositaneragaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53545ed232a1ce5d56fea13d7fe5fb5e/58767413484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c34ec2efa14907f250566aac96e9fc1/tavuludanarexogudiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/99887796141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=angle+between+2+lines+formulaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA1 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D2 18624 bytes
SHA-256: 6077adcda9bee8d2007409b3e7e5f15b3550a77ef8c934ef1fae17ff1a0cf197
font_02_sfnt_off000126f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F07 10984 bytes
SHA-256: df94bad5c36694c854a434aa6a49cd0eee4074aa2ccfd8f7539b5437c738bac4