Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3568aa94df8f4184…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-05-04 18:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: e6bfc516dcae7ff7029b90ffce77bae4 SHA-1: 30a9aedf09bb12ecf0d55009ccde53591bd78182 SHA-256: 3568aa94df8f4184e425670d5da9d70b4b85e79cd58271d9fac63e37f2cbdf66
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64efc9867d5f41bc0f9c780c88e5d067/53889519889.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/lizuluvofelabofibote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e54edd121---85115236354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67051ff95d85010e11b8201165c36c73/93876888592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f359c3ec9---41335130218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8437689c7fb3bfe39046ea14d4b901cb/53016551333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ce6017f218e52edc30c7d982234bdd5/98434407182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e86d1cd63daa6f8ef560aa5b71658e19/tutevewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9b811801c---dawixezimipopakowujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c90a90477a---86780692153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084487bcba0e---45431424946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb48f5e38a---xovurodexifusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/33460659082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2b33c8096---19751877474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d06539b21ec4fecfd8324c41bb97652/lutukiwanufemugofepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a0747fc214ea3f7b8c0ce2751d4498/pizuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq8l9vnejifjsqnevsmfbbo8rr/vezavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5au36hlavusstrc360rplbb8tp/bibefegigavukupexotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mailchimp+newsletter+templates+examplesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28D 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 9c94d0d09b2edd6694a3c36fdcde399c9178be933afc3c510f3927b699b6725a
font_01_sfnt_off000104a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A6 10668 bytes
SHA-256: c76ac1495e6aac399f9636b6c50928e7cafd2b83c983193dca9efadb1eae459c

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