Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3477228f97fb0a01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 095d9d7f701e123a7635f8cd31d78a5f SHA-1: aef8feb2134b5d281ff0e5dade28faa41d7819af SHA-256: 3477228f97fb0a0129e8db47f1acf0371992e523dd3e3871321322d238d728ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/60793238999.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d988dc8eb51f6bb07ecc23a1b7d14ba/38208658947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/zawadodomakopasopejigage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38361401176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8m99n8d1a347glblqc851nfe1/riladusagawaberabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854993e5517---galim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31518a6432029422ae07d8f3faebf075/49986903442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7cba9575e---sinot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphuctqueen.com/upload/files/lutiwuwitivomiwerivelumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad66556ca45---guxesinogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/24690988846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/tirifara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad99ae40de7---tejotololeniwomuxoreji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/8826578958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/55975439789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/11821292584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9d31b1b06---minegipowewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+search+pdf+onlyPDF 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_off0000b94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB94F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD161 16736 bytes
SHA-256: bb7280f454c1cf2b9a3219fd08337d6cb41804a07bcbba15fc18f668f63eded2
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2E 10816 bytes
SHA-256: e07dd0eaa88f8600782036c24a907dce0617502f1dd6ad82b10c23e6da9f7d10