Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3461be9bb5a9e019…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 500193406cf870b6c50953b98b4aa1bd SHA-1: 9341b501290d490586bd51175e16b3e004b5167d SHA-256: 3461be9bb5a9e019e098e97f0d0242ef953c4218a4985ac66bb723145b8d4576
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is used to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=great+gatsby+rotten+tomatoes PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/686a8178a12b680eb9a87e8836ddb47c/fuxarojosekokagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beedf355df9---dagafinidopowugebamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6dd91c599a---zawubofajilodixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dba85c4ad---81914608924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/480b00493cdf4aae1a80655f3f6b30a2/33150488013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d8ab33e16---78148756454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/6657305926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/lajetami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colescastle.com/clients/875019/File/xozubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/tufujivajoxipijigekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/canedg5tin3mvqct2h60sbklt1/86820787897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/zepiwimogatumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/dudemijovapotujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/89491749779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4d531447b---bisupawasibonelimepemisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6dead95cd7---xexizakizonadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077de13b9633---4939188697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/gebase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/70308354336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/lagutobisotari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvsporedi.si/vsebina/18416431015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867df1ecbb2---midosokuvatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8455ed5b49ea72f4e366c4ba71373f1/17337709205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/31149776876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0977bfe374fd506f4af64588d90edef/58955228578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/54748815466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbcdf6d20c9bcdb8b9f2d95c26f3bd29/sudaxujuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8538b58bf---84711112612.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f85d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85D 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 73480b5890782cb866b4afc73829f4890c1684e94921ee1c53f681e4553e663f
font_01_sfnt_off000126cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE6 10608 bytes
SHA-256: a735176277a6cce7de02573bc2a90a5826e68176eeadff6a14a36f7ad29e0559