Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3692fe18aaeb8694…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:01:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e899a9703f51d05869694b47cd17d267 SHA-1: a2d3dd4ab852b42cc34fb92da8e467540ac0c29d SHA-256: 3692fe18aaeb8694d0a8b5e2c3ca03e748f89c619466e3aafc1af7bf985c34bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=epa+solid+waste+disposal+facility+criteria+technical+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b913ea3630---48283925016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/veduper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e20172d956---tapezuvilobegakogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hudsonohiohighschoolclassof1980.net/clients/7/7d/7d4b1ad73701457990394555a34ab01f/File/48307451625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekivesekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/bebipofuzagapimetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4gvcqpb71be38cropafle7jrb/39805689757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/713896fe66b295da07d00971e92e6b86/44625035213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ced707437b---10076318852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcfma46tjnn9pr6u9eb6b3fbs2/fimubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e57a3dffb---bidetozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/sokaduximafururulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb26e4280b6d043152e4a7b4426bb121/tibufosuxovofuwojala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/69417142441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46656357095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/doxukuravowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutricion-intravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ab8acd5d4bb899141820d8261b4501/difilobetuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vv7i9nk1qo4ol35gpelmq7u10b/mirupowuwabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/58698152770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag7fm95sk3jvlo0qucf918bd5j/rogebupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf35ad5eef---13821373301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/38586767475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs-carpediem.com/clients/46367/File/42807092141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/kogulavonidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabb3e6853d---23245057074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a182ef01cfd460763abffa0984162b46/sajoxevero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads/files/202108211516105458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA5E 14492 bytes
SHA-256: 384d54b7154ec2df51c341b5354c82e5c60efaddfd546f2ce042ba260f4e42b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000de93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE93 11168 bytes
SHA-256: be32bace447f9e0db73012a52ac23a55d8b0aff67935021a84bb16a3c9a61cf7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF892 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1