Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3774040d40c060e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 05:17:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5a928c10bd2ab2f6530d4f9c9205fb06 SHA-1: ac8861123e22d4d461f42bc6dd63690f0c84d2d5 SHA-256: 3774040d40c060e3a8ab6ba8d64567939981e3bd4db244fda44fab77c03ad2e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of these links suggests the primary attack pattern is to redirect users to malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tratamiento+para+viruela+aviar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7m9tv6a85b4tvqo6cd385hbu4/80328988114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f137e2aa7---kofujalorili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c4cbfabc3fefce51279f3ede214ebf9/65777296312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/dijexigejuralisavusero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0559b0f4df---povixulasisuzanebiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e97c8ebbab7---41501526294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c211d37fab1---53262584623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6b4a45097d9dd40a173b8a5ab34615b/fefokenaminesotamixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sclifeguards.com/clients/16854/File/78348231632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64e918fbd8---gemumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac03e78db04---nitegedafanene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609958655aaa6---39717694029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24232093339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/52426152682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/tadovovujidotakuvolow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a8fa865c4eb669525185425419ce112/kujededopopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/wudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theonejsc.com/userfiles/file/7457779479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769d7421ab0---1629443312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e020398d5d---jiluniralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608357620d24a---rorezizonudoxajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7F 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 3c5c604b28b42d4d5ad680e54968c1825544571930109f681c44588e81c6a6ec
font_01_sfnt_off00011573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11573 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e9fe280161bda4fbd2e3f04fed989eb287297332e047efe502b5eeffffa041f2
font_02_sfnt_off00012dae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1