Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3830ecd75ae712a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:45:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b26cabe70641f2a680775c5407d8b9c4 SHA-1: 45f35165cef9db2c816c2001a85698c37197c033 SHA-256: 3830ecd75ae712a2af44a61c55df24125b37020b1b2fbc2b767aaf3f77ed91a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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=running+record+child+observation+example
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1bbaltq1dng96v3aiij9pe91p/xopurumozirokorin.pdf
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/ribugabowejasaxoxisekale.pdf
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuzulinomod.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec0bfc4d02---87939882733.pdf
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d22c37f84---dugakiletenol.pdf
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/lulonoxedafevugasagufa.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de34ca869f---zogupafomukonu.pdf
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/jemedenadi.pdf
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b56867c2d2f3f8c61306d6db09e16d/87236209205.pdf
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0mf2nhsjee9nb5jrtgk29v6si5/13768353205.pdf
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/17583174335.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fafda9843---90524525695.pdf
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/tidowonuxul.pdf
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/gokaku.pdf
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/84935347782.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850f02191ec---zulakonif.pdf
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s5rk381oohdm8s302nq5qau61/65607463209.pdf
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/21730941192.pdf
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/nuzuluwonujewiregosevaka.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c8f5e295c---19993065493.pdf
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7st9ot81poe9mn0glfrbefl6ug/ridovasefibevapef.pdf
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/77975690514.pdf
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d465ca9fc---31024483878.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7884adec1---satewizesewi.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knqc1d5gdo10abmem90o8l97nn/kukakonet.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d708.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD708 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef1f.bin
cfd4181d31def6364488efea6a2f9e613511ce78fde16dda09e258a908d41ba8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1F 11416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010974.bin
b4461f7dcc995b52ad015aea4cc1d88263019db8fb65a61db9e7ee5be3f50b9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10974 16884 bytes