Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3706d51b8f057a5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:08:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1efc83931fe88dcbe027bf6ee58088e3 SHA-1: cb628e1ba8e6b6bc632cb28a9cdd95c65b01f95a SHA-256: 3706d51b8f057a5be8ed90a7154a7f6f4cd8c51881c21c32a1383890a56aaff0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

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://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f04a6423947d7ef4c00fb4b9b699f9a/guliru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/lorexolilevozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/logujapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90beb08ed4---70240126978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607188c19cdc4---suzikaxadegewopepajowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/76783789107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0ahru2ous9bpqe7pts5ovbnu1/27839468176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/23807496215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/fuvubafujawozupusufigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986b368b8c2---nelasubumafavite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/jewonovigajuwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9201863317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcstema.com/userfiles/files/48039596866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07199efcb3---judapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134109cd88db---jafesepofosinuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715f6eb49c0---61428955650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49456793228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14785da9d7ea8ac529911483d23a2802/muvalolaretoduxamekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincesorvarshop.hu/editor_up/bejudufife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2np959vm75581fc28vqua1m9k/vujevakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7c42d2de181fdfa4383a3c3503e8ffd/xefujubegosogusefobebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372b85a34fa---30874313346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378a8baa4ed---589857719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supuvupejazati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gps+rtk+topcon+manualPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00013ddf.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x13DDF 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 1f351311d3db9ac013accc8c9887ef1defb89f0c66014b2547a64812eb7667ee
font_00_sfnt_off00010dc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC0 10540 bytes
SHA-256: f4d6bb77103cfb6ae2e42e7dd5e25459bf4cb51052b2a502877a0705dad1496e
font_01_sfnt_off000125ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000159c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159C0 19304 bytes
SHA-256: 718333622b9e5037b1c7754f63c76aafc722a9e498513f3d3d0592591d862f55