Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3392d01e2fbb5fbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-05-10 07:15:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: baa303919dace8a7cfef9df6e3f11fdb SHA-1: 495c59acbadd92f36a43f73ab647fc71e8c93cc0 SHA-256: 3392d01e2fbb5fbd8539d37f47469a09d40ecb401e98e95a6b08ad5ca680e5f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bhagam+bhag+movie++mkv PDF link annotation
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798c9b30c53---40740560991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/45980468033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ae8995d40---zusewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607654f29ebc8---44151425894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffa3ca0dd8139c0a7299f4b143aecabc/77693947562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c88605ee12---37097276376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094568a2f57f---sezudivefiterabofezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/wemarijibibixofivunevuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bc5e0b428---22326833022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd45959f6c---vifogofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a8c78c2ebd5b90c17b21dcf219bee25/zikupovaviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203ceb1d075a55680a677b6aa96f1667/87941559406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d15ae7d8bc41d56f2df0cf7b9f13e9/62797454934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f65b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65B 5104 bytes
SHA-256: e9fb901cbb6c3e8748eeb524918002c80212767294a35b5d684f7352917e2315
font_01_sfnt_off000107a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A7 10496 bytes
SHA-256: cb453f5f946de51b0e879f62a8c63ee7a8c4d20818637bbf2c5ce8aa4d58a321