Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3495ab0e7e738a85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:42:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fc48a5bb007e88a3313cbe6695150408 SHA-1: a1da497d83195ec7595488762c70e59a041a73b0 SHA-256: 3495ab0e7e738a85b577da01f2e831bf14f76933f42d2b8e9c96880c2188ebfe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content, potentially as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607127261dbe6---xikedupatojis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc5b6bd50b6f35ff8f11013e25609b6/bodetemefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864b10cf31991a177044caca774dbe54/sezoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/vixadokume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db9a41f1b0---duxebumikelavivijinebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qnlr1a9q0pl6fosmu4o38kgt31/98867208099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/gamoturuzedodumuduwota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/2105171748012387468ygbv6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce5df0ec4dabad8e41fecadf7b49ef6b/10451308414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/91008873315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81bbee701baeab7e245beba99e4f786a/53180054711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46699766859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/25486051861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31ab41c3d8---wapala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+happens+to+the+baby+during+a+miscarriagePDF 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_off0000dcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCE 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 15ecd5b4e144aff6ec05f84aebc68ed9d2b1ddb0d653e7af5102cb8bba0ea2b0
font_01_sfnt_off000108cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CD 11264 bytes
SHA-256: cb5f6cd6f8a899ff595fca87b3451c03ddb3ec31a31bed0cbedc68090aece4d8
font_02_sfnt_off000122ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1