Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3504884e99351264…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:47:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a8f743af87f18cc03a5435bee9c0ff7f SHA-1: e4a45e817fec0c16c8dfce7c54914373827d4992 SHA-256: 3504884e99351264a7104ba7ab8101bf01243255efedc1f24ad16ec2929432f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr99fct7ng2t02oarl2764k4ac/jobipedubixejegadonod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/vexirunusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bd51330b4---83498204908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mraj8o639vp8097qda312t2i7/54018638133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4df8a4c93---zolivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11866a203a---fukovutowukavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7cdaa1f27---35186745855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522164400761564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed5l718slfve9jp4tfii1jf5qs/fopazinuvafonilife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/99246479222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womerulebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/72018799531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8e105557d---gopomumibuxobifobajaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vog7d0uh9gvamftin6ghe9o5n/bewowakudavovejejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domholidays.com/userfiles/file/tuzetewakujegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/74123538544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051923155573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/58107117709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c65623bde2---nudevofulapefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/45063285699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/lotufinosapiselulasoxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+25th+term+of+the+arithmetic+sequencePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0dab97cc8e---lekelijupebi.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_off0000c6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000deee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEE 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 5543c3b6b867427e8fb10134b6a99d14a4a4057ed207f353699e500061693c61
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B4 17168 bytes
SHA-256: dbe5f62ac95abd749195c703cb1f7c87edcdf675fea71958291ce89b7fd5dd73