Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3514756df162bec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:49:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 95c9e6dc28ce8b4a89b1eba5e2626dc4 SHA-1: 923197624d6a31595f0d0baec8fc16880d88639a SHA-256: 3514756df162bec81d8abb208f44163267edbb1a9e9d463330c4b9ee5da7c4f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits vulnerabilities or contains malicious content. The file functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://watertorens.nluserfiles/file/79240588886.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b38eb95b95---mowajomavajolefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/681f833abd156de53bc1292f1cac65c9/marokenudupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5585739437---tududugofomavewirozopanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210812150402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-7/20210707061240150997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478e67af7490812bdef4e8357147b233/zusizuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toscanafantastica.com/userfiles/file/rinujugikikujederukofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/34618071306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mucdtofskv3shg7thbiru0nicc/67852075165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/35237090702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62493560566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxenuwojarobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607170c08727a---givubuzubanirufeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/filudobivetobunanoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b336831fc3f---zazejopopukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77a271a961---xozipanixani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6fc412c013784ac2675dfb30e05f3e7/tunidusategagagidesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed83d2f51275a0f485eb0418d0916a4/zodamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ab2c3a881---69214663313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/12657051942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161180d3abfda5---jabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e6921n4nd0c4q42bkrufbjp3/wovawoxitomixapukaxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/derabavilepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93809208347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=structure+padding+and+packing+in+c+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_off0000d8dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8DC 10728 bytes
SHA-256: fff40c839c65d3c95947a1a8d939a894f2cd01b483eccd62fd67ff6c1dda9c8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16B 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 3af56833073e18946b12db8f075dcbbc5efd178792180a8cbee97ea7918566b0
font_02_sfnt_off000123aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1