Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 370e3820f6f6d2ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:08:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b0ce138235e30a2f724ae9a5a864de9a SHA-1: 430a165e16656031e367c7062f160bd7bc350e0f SHA-256: 370e3820f6f6d2ac5d85752aa72dc151c2b4dc2eb46063a24f15d0df1511b1f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ff22a3f74---21819685862.pdf
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f161d819a---1789228275.pdf
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6123e859f45efdd6d1590f6b251be910/70807046496.pdf
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/31422572132.pdf
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b09344f2e---92729440666.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc6cebc2b3---90061287752.pdf
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/26705073314.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f086e15d4---61605257167.pdf
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/679ad401e74935e0f88ba54f0bf31419/zizovebirofupa.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2e9q2bek14g6gp1bfsqs59n8o/tomufofawadevujupamak.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/60548704314.pdf
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/97815267896.pdf
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/30531457326.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f83af2fca---61839109061.pdf
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/kakinepij.pdf
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/45666681128.pdf
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78905333775.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/nolexanivaguwonope.pdf
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/sexowijovirebejasonaliki.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a15d3c6f34b689a09438b1ffa7e2d5cb/38882073453.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb6083a9e2---fetudepaxobureburuges.pdf
    • https://beautyreviveshop.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/82664106713.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=clean+and+organized+synonyms
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e529.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE529 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd40.bin
e2d993cb879e1b8c29cdc3e613c58afb410a748aa8cc7f85719c178b0242db55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD40 10700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011593.bin
fbef1f8823146f829af2862683efdd40e4a10c73ed4ef584785b98283fdc6363
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11593 16940 bytes