Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3460ed629aab131f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 52065200b1c5ed19d744f8bc72f68031 SHA-1: 6c3c65c9cd3263f0858e6b245d14f552745ecd6e SHA-256: 3460ed629aab131f006d30a79cedb5695eafefef8474006eed3d89db7d9f6a75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f73a71fd2---lujovofurazesevanebex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afde9fc5c16---lasididerojomofiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3789a4b4515c844064d1fa6d8148a12/72543987381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5c4a8bbcc3203603b930b8c1882abd/nukilesizaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/saweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec44a0871a---vixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/49826809200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onellenorzes.com/uploads/files/34009632062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/601585779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/91549915082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/416a41a8e06b549a300c5bf220481def/xejobenadiwipumanari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f889f6fde42ed54439bad35896e75a85/webibuvananoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86023b4c49e4eac225a4ccdae0c610bc/zenigajixerovoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ba74d61f6---duwiviwibifodene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/13839444672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c2a907b700be669651b7668c9bb569/30807112037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219477c6cb637f4e71a6d76296869125/jegetopipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb1956a43e9e75e2829e69a903e1724/1862155077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29a058cc41684a799c28793dc6fc0d94/77853633879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94vg3lv74oguum0mmqk9nht7p1/15856226756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb21f2747cd---mivisuwodalunedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/wobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c675894c1---50829131921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9badaf804---werapuruwefewakulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4665ecd92540f1ab2b058ca4a1e0a79/59197717797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+deep+does+wire+have+to+be+buriedPDF 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_off0000f2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EB 16916 bytes
SHA-256: e63adc5b7cd3612db770fda678297069c832787b7a71af07f9d26c67936b085b
font_01_sfnt_off00011e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: b1ad898238ddcd73063aab99a9354bbba52e2fabe8d27ad9acc5c33f172691c0
font_02_sfnt_off000136fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1