Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3643ccd3740c5260…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-27 13:51:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d5d4cc6e43e40722ab55f6d7def97dbf SHA-1: b889fe1c7b396fbfd43797d2c7efabad20ef6a90 SHA-256: 3643ccd3740c52607459022f42c09eb56be762063047e734e40331b82ca8d67a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites and are identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malware or engage in phishing activities. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dlfq3g46vlebtcknc9ubuubd4/91733274277.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yeditepegumruk.com/userfiles/98078044502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/43622906588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111ec39602ca---92439381166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benhgout.net/uploads/Files/file/jinogigejabusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/nabegupakikamiwizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f7433bfcc---kubilepupebizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fb4e727d0---lidatorewalukiwivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faac26edbc3---bavuxadosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/dewisenajira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/95942986822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/lerurufezijadujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/dusekuxelevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e981818812c62eb289082fba08a8dc8a/76465908231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wf515345.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/vamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canavesiobruno-architetti.it/userfiles/files/zifamajinikemopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/fujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/243c5bf09b64f86b3a446345c70825d9/75293091473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/naredokejevaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/64465209068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48594304051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+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_off0000d0f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0F0 10248 bytes
SHA-256: c6e97709988a00fec5f8e4935061fe4d869e64686c8a5a24c10ceef2ba2ab836
font_01_sfnt_off0000e821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE821 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 03bc520b9e4ffd907d7d2edb7c8de9e881b45239de95fd4ebb6ad4b3d6cbac24
font_02_sfnt_off00011474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11474 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1