Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3649773596056b18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-21 21:53:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 71332055e57018385509501b5fe471d7 SHA-1: 5f9729bd1eead9934ab9ba79f6a3094f7355c484 SHA-256: 3649773596056b185c31255cdc883647aa2fbdee52473ad9624b888b208962e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609711762310b---vuravigano.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/15357749940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22956443896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/fegiginefomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66536df2ff---fuwuzokexozatupakenivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/5543176256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miracleschoolministries.com/survey/userfiles/files/35732193748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc4ad8af1f---72175403359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607763c2093b3---ponebevenat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/pubofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/69532694106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4ptc87f0jvilekpts33cj49o3/32719945568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/51526531959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/bosikepuvuzupiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074926b49c9a---jazabanaburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1591789bddf07ef34ffbc08a7b7c0f43/45286290225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47330a0e5f027cd9c6bdc4501b89cfe1/81217566811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0823314a48fb76eb4306544223c55d5/30823316317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/lasewesifawenufibozukaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/vemovusuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a5246a168925e2e9f75f3816cc07418/93980177862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ee721bd3b---bibazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eef8e754bd8b7539c8caa183f25e4d76/84045613479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/jafodebukulijorarenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+age+of+adaline+full+movie+onlinePDF 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_off0000e327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE327 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB39 18428 bytes
SHA-256: a68acaff5daf68cb87cd719423f78d6937f0e8fd99ddb5be1c99d2ca452249a6
font_02_sfnt_off00012abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABE 10564 bytes
SHA-256: f3e6a8593cbe6ee9d72fb2563bf69107127f8355c8b8a1705c0ee2dfec18f0b3