Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3597f8c7fbb5b5f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

164.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7b3754bc22c3b0f3231621ee70825f74 SHA-1: 4aef7756836b8dfc5d75970d0d49063a5fe83822 SHA-256: 3597f8c7fbb5b5f5cdbd58d1b499ab6033aed348373772073aa4d3adaa81dc2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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 http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/jubekejubunazini.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afa17b6a05c4bc9dcb25d8b06013252/36011840197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/lawini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsqu6gg73alpb0204dcao08b09/lulago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents//files/26228749657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3129b3f4d---sedopozosogalukurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1n6mc5411pd5shmu0i0eadv44/64451937025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/18968507748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6b890021c0---61908115671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/61164609484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b4909ad88---60615054820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e70cb7e7b8febd869bfce9cafe7fe5/16751431676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/redadoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8khd882hii9fgd95beivrd8r21/fobogepidakijufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608845ecb7a3f---63798042503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ospf6m5qbq1sld4t6956na2th/59682599183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/13062815457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/52011555947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/37303148664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077738f54b97---xiwalurezupexaripenuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789dc60aac7---vusatazugigutegurixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jg1s9367luutg807n37becb40k/82544349465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/57939978234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/24368107822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+rate+of+photosynthesis+decreases+as+thePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfd48cc82bc27976881a41149e2f213/60804496804.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_off0002193d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2193D 21144 bytes
SHA-256: d3913cc6e988bf3b731ea3e4656cc9384a46e785c6139b786049b1b0efa5aec9
font_01_sfnt_off0002510e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2510E 10748 bytes
SHA-256: ebce9bf0878f863276da14635f9d8d72fb3e921d563736eefd57af8aedd6dbb7
font_02_sfnt_off000269c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x269C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1