Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3772b21243d54691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-11 12:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 2af6940ea2d7e00a6257453206bbce59 SHA-1: e26a2db523bdd535e11fa318c1eb4ccd679ff6da SHA-256: 3772b21243d546918e6fc7fbab0db85e4e1cba3ab2e67a80d9828a72e9f83575
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or engaging in phishing activities. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting indicates a deliberate effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/pumevebipid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35bd4aa2ebb07feb74a01020f2a4e4e4/98396168962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16655709019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057h4batjaf3ubph08dqmpvb40/81258895977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdcf2d08926---velobusavexazinokuriwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a16272f047---pelaguvemusipewelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/3fc1785fd86b3c13b55c902ac6755cc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/nulodebavunalezovatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4d5d8416e---mizumimikuvetuwetukibiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/maviberekilibezepogabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b93ftqeodgj33dfe86crmhqds1/laxatadizilejavovila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de1b79d7fc---xorano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l8h59gg96o7kqhq11qegq9l85/kisuzuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/61223997253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julutuwegelogaluxafekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/mixudaxuwoxigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed009330c2---fosorawulupifafakapufomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/39198117101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/84235070880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f042da9f79---panazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads//files/202108061344206472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethanybaptistcolumbus.org/clients/75549/File/lobewilesewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=plants+vs+zombies+garden+warfare+steamunlockedPDF 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_off0000f1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F4 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 33e6c76f23135ffc609406f63c63d3da5a9ffaec8df4503ddce931eef942318d
font_01_sfnt_off00010ca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA6 16944 bytes
SHA-256: dec023c6c9228e81f2b0da28c4927d453694b5634a3ad24bb4d03a504b9700a7
font_02_sfnt_off0001389e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1389E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1