Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3856a6e00bab9680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 19:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 22b9d14d471e00aa2811257039fcddde SHA-1: 52ff0245efbf43217d48ce2dc006be9da3e336be SHA-256: 3856a6e00bab968085ed9056c8c0762fe705b86cf99b2bd78a9f380ee1d74237
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9358

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://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38410695061.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec880db0990fd330430f74acd4704077/jomede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/tudetotapomosijigunoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093da4cb513b---nosasotuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8f631b2c8---sirinupuzodiwanoditax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/75592466293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/niguzuzazojadugulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/xilitolenofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/rapinumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutusuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/57434023820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/zesenisawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/38551928871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/99802669217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e9322e346b68e4a244b535793f269d/40248775406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88d7aaef61---34909242902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38596d9f5fa20de3625be5abfa193675/sipojuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/fofofusete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fc1aedc8e---vimemaxinovoxifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec901ac912---29709999144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calhi1977.com/clients/879053/File/54101687700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c75a1e4fa8a1c9f7d7ee6b8dd281a8/boxevuvigeminefozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1978fa77b97561274425e95807c8eb6b/tewoninibawome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/35501988920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/81058857592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9f1a7643a6cd3ef55d31db4ed509bc/fenimikinarewamepote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=that+intrigues+mePDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012308.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12308 18328 bytes
SHA-256: d9f5e66163d907df9b2c2f031b8906ab183602eda4757f3e8ef428a9cf922d60
font_00_sfnt_off0000f36b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36B 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 0c5b752cd7b27741817c4ee034f2d6ecdc929c1a00d37abd6be35b2252fc4a25
font_01_sfnt_off00010af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000140a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A5 23192 bytes
SHA-256: 5a7129da88db4027408c4dcb8ee9876601a16ab599e5a930ae12efc444b738db
font_04_sfnt_off00017959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17959 3464 bytes
SHA-256: a8161c2f5ba9235eb51b4fcc43b6bb219725019365cb8d38f9ec25dfe5ce54ff