Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3881913fa7f6f2dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 20:57:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ab6ad8190a16c4936a24c0aa10579a28 SHA-1: e1dc08f9417d09e4a315fb8fa11fc0725b06d06a SHA-256: 3881913fa7f6f2dc0deb515707979f447d25fcbb00851d5668937c8c7e1bbe2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of URLs like 'https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shield+vpn+chrome' indicates a lure to download potentially malicious software disguised as a VPN client.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shield+vpn+chrome PDF link annotation
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca4af31a2a53232008b17fa74308b43/32818757841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5c3e1d61b---dawixalokomabivita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e754f17fb7---96657088167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95862f7ff7cae61cd8116b267bc1d062/malixatopani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc0cabb479---1308979553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b429f19b9817a372a9991bec8de8497/24508633384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a331c7e21c97c1e72e006099239c59/fanufubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/64057695569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab2cc76782---sabojadesuvapusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/fazakademu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/14585336822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjbj349pn9irls4bu7239ojt8g/66434222822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunarfactory.com/userfiles/files/29550317618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ijj7llf1gl29ho3vjqqficjd6c/37353142593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beed4bc451f---suduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE229 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 6f7f6c60b556ac211ee0253c8c193b02ac438d9c241a4b8828ee0a26b55c0ec6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF359 11508 bytes
SHA-256: e02925b6cfcb363397d82f3283cc02373d56789df8e6f0b8ccc6bb58a30c16d0