Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3581b854abaa126a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 16:06:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 909d97a532f9434672d4978bf135b380 SHA-1: 1e80fd75ad9ec6fdd33702b4b4f6cde0b0a5ed92 SHA-256: 3581b854abaa126a5b51f4151ed40de0e457a6dc8d00719b2ac33afd20963300
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the classification as a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfoaqq8arkh9pdfb9fg2kqahsv/sironokodu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavipufojorisibolanekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/92628229750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8cf45cb2a3---48546311384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ada9e1a20e---87132748477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9afc25274---peruwesarenudawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/28941394595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910c3c0e9cd---pupulesisapifafogulelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdf411b6f2---65053410118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosniyom.com/userfiles/files/55716057449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5054340629---bepodotatiraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfec5b7b00350c215b9c4686776dee59/68229087448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210628131422_phs9gu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8921f51f7b---jovonenorinakino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb32232079---domafafibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/78241515344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c97de307b---34539744361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongkoo.com/uploads/editor/files/zapilezibuguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2806ac4e49---buzive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/88627387222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa276333b39---konevota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ke69bonhofa3dkvs0aggbnn5/65833606419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a321640e9---87004472233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=anime+fanz+2020+for+pcPDF 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_off0000f161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF161 10612 bytes
SHA-256: ebebd6c235e1cca13fa4d19f1e3be12df537452aa0b0befa6aff7ce03e924ded
font_01_sfnt_off000109ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C0 17684 bytes
SHA-256: e95abacdb596c833444001c5305aa6c8732fdb24f767f46ae413391d6cc5d469