Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3806336dc2da8f93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:25:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 87a2c15b85e2771a0a973714ed350fd4 SHA-1: 05495be8d7620187e2970697bcfaa47fe5022122 SHA-256: 3806336dc2da8f938842f286c35ceb8aa8c6a26861efb8cac60c55ff1d1f5c81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=intraday+calls+for+today+nse PDF link annotation
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a1853bd5a---74234600188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30b4a26241---57948044564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dccf0b971c155dabd5169914b974329/5163199626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70f664119a---66384186880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad65dbc6d4---17802943874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609002411c326---xazobowawusutekujoginus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/90362422868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/robalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b982ab6b156---91653095853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed88944a656eba0ba679b8c989b47cf6/gududupamajubemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cd1be8135---papunalolisejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b6f05b41a5d142c86e6df9c1416b55c/26181665949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609816918ff07---diwosotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edison76.com/clients/5/54/54c13950cbd15a81e6fb4362eab8f273/File/76964651704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc2a78d9ee---zojuvixunetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/92911522076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvmiqj9hcheni5qd53uu92gog1/99072632760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cc246bc99b2bc6e368d9eaf582b3741/390913343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/27861055857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/gimafenajufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf934629d01---50437495233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdepskifamily.com/clients/1/1a/1adacdf247316bc4617b3617d965acc7/File/52488737867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/debavakavikejikapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/57544337248.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_off0000c7c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C4 16428 bytes
SHA-256: bc9d058466cf12cdc9f505a7c25e2931c7c164b18f4e592d7f61451a5efb31b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29A 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 50f12fc48714e4ddd3177ccf496b77238279b21d1ec0beebd2402bc5c99bf124
font_02_sfnt_off00010a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1