Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3605df73604d2e08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cb86c1178ac2a68b806151bc75a325fa SHA-1: 0f2e750fbed15427c048a1ea4f7d272d03d86bfe SHA-256: 3605df73604d2e08cb3486fa282fb564330c1ce6733cfcfee7e3ecb24dd7adc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, a common tactic for hosting malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

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://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252p9bc1gc30tdnebgoft0hc41/koxepikevadesor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55c58b01ebdbeda43bbbd788d502c6b9/31850771010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092521c7f268---tifoladojuwerexesusilelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2cd20c1f5---57261983346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/13462982574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/84075888546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/51877643504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7e94701bffa713d32599d9c947c70f/fiwamagivatesobizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83gtimteqcdfgdidfq4rdmo4c3/kiputofetejawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/zifamosagazutokumubolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607726fb37d23---gixetobojeniforikikakon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/56454579066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607274331c54a---49237916136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/94395181946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/miramutiboxaririlex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a60610c488130b7c70767e2855d51885/nabajobogubovibimofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/bofividotekorogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1980l3ocpdtnht0qpbebl64pfd/duduralafasukelutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsi.coop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffad405fcff28bb3878491c1f075c868/39717209847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//gokoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091487db974b---malamomalabujidavuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7de93e1f4c56306852cd79f3c905799/xozure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ouuep2813jk2agdubq6682rfg/90721509555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46094801c4---rixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81340m0u01vdr1o69p0e6a4mk6/94115164419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e490e207c---7077246964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=wholesale+cash+and+carryPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF064 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
font_01_sfnt_off000105df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DF 18004 bytes
SHA-256: db1f28b5778aa65cd8e2086eafdc5bce038456f52f4785f77a7790c429e4339e
font_02_sfnt_off00013510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13510 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D27 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa70415e6b848835b737b1ec4f63fe2e91a01e039e395042546b284e97726fb