Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 363bcf3251b6c54d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-07-22 02:11:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6fc565735c243763409b077be4902f22 SHA-1: 93553d8aa3fbde751134a88d972189edd3653818 SHA-256: 363bcf3251b6c54dfba1aced757f9fbc17bb05db396d99303c7e7cd23f084dd7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of embedded links suggests a coordinated effort to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2340cb27f---xuvaxapawixi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb873d6431---27211813338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8o6h20nse2ohsvo6tuk4qbtsb/85418636934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b77b4a89e79b9f26162e2acef0c2dcf/26311941866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a73d0d26a---gujinomujurajafudavemugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502063427533231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/43114564145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eda299163f35905262a4422936421b1/xinuxirikizazesobibomonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/pefimugiboloza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/88942827867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://txextremecarts.com/userfiles/file/24919678535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berotuwemufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mploa.com/clients/2/2c/2ccb326c3583e393996f575e36ee3974/File/gizafoduxewazatuvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3243ae952---55089534403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woliwawisudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebde7a9aad---titifudalomejojilaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15bb9d1b18---degoxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubepefixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db0064193b---dasoxopoferuzosuzetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/63990246290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65744bb783f786f76d8f20b67786362d/tomoginasesamulebumexupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee66371729---64000486622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=broken+down+valise+meaningPDF 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_off0000ddb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB3 10788 bytes
SHA-256: f4420656cb29e1340cb13f630ea322a0d4ea8f803e7dd6a390a2fdd5da5b653d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f65c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65C 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 95b797e26a51dabad38d7ff3566099910071a79b5a7845fc9a5f16abe990ff25
font_02_sfnt_off000125ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1