Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3501029d99b7bdf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b24e106ce661eca69e249f8327ff52b2 SHA-1: ee2200ab581bb979c0e935a8b2d9f648cb97f988 SHA-256: 3501029d99b7bdf7fe56b6626f3fc3a3ecfe7f7621a5d4e7f6024e1e790a6a84
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking a link, which leads to a compromised WordPress upload directory. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing detailed analysis of its specific payload, but the overall pattern suggests it's part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/91359784929.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c28ac5f60825e3ff41293f27b2850a8/38381965644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e328ea0c805---95674733892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59525273aafe42b6a36a04860994996/fudikomizosezimebazaxufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/84886472329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/nulasuripinejubeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/48472020726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/kevagivekaxavujudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/74210849178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097495b31bc9---lusumerezebuxuxaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///9392265143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f581257a0ca571cf7fb426703a6f5b81/47064545829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/userfiles/file/53144198538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/sumitepatowazebojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/58239170467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbonag.com/luutru/files/kexox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/bonesewifelake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/42364983683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c97b67f18f---wonorupiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9163af7ec---39090560913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/fadexuvujinifiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609763fc93d04---29656525418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/32914980932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c31bc921981ec7af35ac1c595cc6d73c/32583577430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3f06d93c71ba24a02d76a33b1c8331/30248660470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+three+pictures+into+one+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_off0000b5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5CA 11108 bytes
SHA-256: fac918963df44c4c07a6343edfb6d17469b305dbc5dbc89f2b13480472eabb3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE798 13804 bytes
SHA-256: ffec5fe7a4616f28cbb7deef0a3f199802eee21fb488b654d747d2dab70fc069