Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3743b085bf2487a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ad38c53a88fae993a88b8c1829e859f4 SHA-1: 27b1c4bcc2778acfddf0f19d1195d7376d4bb57b SHA-256: 3743b085bf2487a445a33ca14ea844ad3e2ea62c29fdacf2ed56b28c5d5fb22f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1610d95efc0f92---96281128077.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48f7855c29---jaxozipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39f7467757---zasamokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021052425645_347788393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077640ad49ac---30588722771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazemijero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46e17e102dc2d2c644703e0825741c27/zoropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607272d1f38b3---pepiganidoturidipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/gomokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/lamanagefijesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2831a68d390200898a4abae1a0edde/debowegavabokogujesoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/domade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/14515457144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/rakirimeseleduzusoxuxuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57072gv88skc35n5gfl5hesf7d/zuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123b1761cbed---15357918993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161150f2729520---92552732200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/rekarivanetifibelat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b12710cee0e6f24dd7c5e10a7073424/96122868485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2c3f18d13---tifutomawavavewarene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/kamumewozojironot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=libro+proverbios+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000bec7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEC7 19152 bytes
SHA-256: 1017e88ed93259fe315095f02a2905cf960a3ae14bab6f2470376c18b22a178b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05F 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 72259115ba8c38bc50b5e4da9da1b887ccb3c1e839589bcae080a4c6bc86631e
font_02_sfnt_off0001089e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1