Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3392e44fc6abc8da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 03e892a107d5c57f5c6d074f7babc0b9 SHA-1: e017db6c9086cece6b5b08df4f9d86d084293408 SHA-256: 3392e44fc6abc8da7fa743472429631e765415061bbe137659f8c2820b092a32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple links on potentially disposable hosting further suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/vesegopukunibe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c4576869466042a39807e16285ffa38/ravapagefugexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2119d5ebad---sanupubuxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80m2aac5e8o5c5nr6b78j7n7na/5218383760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da100640d4---68672847045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0adb37871b---29945638648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c912d554f1b---zejezoxaturilewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyageaventurenepal.com/upload/files/narekobipozukewebexejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/78551647317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/31559023298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ae57164c5---kemifepemigavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b15772e14---jerowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/50282380827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/73984102612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/budoxodagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/pexalutuzitaxozobolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/30108235968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb80474469---5827524650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/vogepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971b615a7b3---suvigobofufawasujeduveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/78748758622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongkoo.com/uploads/editor/files/babira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/gekexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1t6akeu2ni6t01qmk1p8a37574/mevivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=expanding+expression+tool+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_off0000c9a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A2 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 3b79329c990e9e85779c5530b9377de270bf1a6cd09efd406b9efeb29a2dc9c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF845 10756 bytes
SHA-256: b125a046798712a5fa853d09140708faf5ac7dc9bc23b0da2aad141f1e0170b1
font_02_sfnt_off000110e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1