Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3641b8f14cd838ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1baeb25b9dddaa531b1b3cb9b669fedf SHA-1: 8c0ab6e9383da9c4b4c11309a9bc84dd8ca35881 SHA-256: 3641b8f14cd838ed5ce723da1690702f1277ab2135498aaba0408a3511c30900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, and the structure suggests it's intended to lure users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/liwodalilezofisope.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudufexabelatorarinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12b3eae261---zesotujerevaredazifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dc75ef0d2---fekasidakevojiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2mp8b2jqrac5o2salft335o9u/jawexuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba0cffa2508fe2bcb0a3da3afe0f683/jidavudosezomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c6542c6ec---34265445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99e2986f6e---rarabaruxomebetemamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f280cf31a0b0be3c0f1a92ba4ede45b6/60809349030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b85358d83---janilogegasosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d0b828903236911bdaa4f2f92a5640/74304544677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6be1e45c4---36383722411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/9ffdb7a97f96f6f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eb24c02d3---worosik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/tavipoxukovowodunuruwiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d0b0b3cbb---fezalufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb60a13750d---vadobigewiwigemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/pipevisema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heks-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/xosilesixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3581146622781dce2b90ab60ed2d008/92663809362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66d87ff4bcf7cc5931362aa3a35ef010/pazozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a3096f30abe7e65f208d25d8b218a4/80263840532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qt7qf03rp8lmbe05u44qlvb3cd/10911724307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=celf+5+examiner%27s+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000b92e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB92E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD145 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 0d1f0f4f4546eb7268f268909998fe95d811c56f071529ae1fe0bae713160528
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA50 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 9212aaff04344c1ce0df0829c9650f5f99de37859473df96fa7e09f2af29523d