Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3769c36240cf28a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:56:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1736a2ad8d868390a776620e2e8da670 SHA-1: b294e44de129db0cbb45c9a9dbc9b0b32440d911 SHA-256: 3769c36240cf28a4798853ffc1c56bbbf5f8a61eb689de3cd4d4c4516e9bd279
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics and numerous extracted URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggests the document is designed to redirect users to external malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/maket.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a484beae3ad---negogalumizexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607756d326df4---87153968235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdebd30caa82f5b39c14200801896e19/bupudorazabopotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/26130983041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4baf9fcc1---19504466020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/zoridezepirugoxumafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/62094027743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/jirikofaduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1b7824ecff06753083346545eece3d/mariro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd47e1a38911d9e5ea9bb1e39a27935e/53947349427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub6cekajevo34m3pnfs50679tb/76757210135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/mefiligekatabebusefetifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c0885f58dae06ee4cc7d4e50c4fcdb/nokogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210602141633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1116fcefbec2b7e1a809a176e6e5fedf/51564596036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/gobedojakekeruwodisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860df76ca16---44164856271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7pn3q9ejcmbdjmvsnghrhafki5/birifujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b783de43b19842a4471f622d8c61b67/43107954802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9780530269de3e67f57cb6d0b9d2bd/xaruruxivarigilamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/14973650089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f0f11e6a2---tagofisugeferugululona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=draft+injection+moldingPDF 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_off0000e5a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A5 18216 bytes
SHA-256: b011f3189a48ea7aad1c4612c28d56d2aa1dbc03413e7d3ba9f4a476958d12f4
font_01_sfnt_off000115c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD7 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 4554d3b9a51870f61d2e4334cf5105c94527bf73d44ae88a4eb19d0386ff45f2