Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3893ff14caba5480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:17:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cabf0b83358117e53bc82f07b709ec16 SHA-1: 77e2ef7e61b2ffb47ce77b232fe4e50ccbcbaadc SHA-256: 3893ff14caba54800e118acd5aae0477ffd9ab75e6e19aa4c2f3b2957cf9742f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1665a9fe3635fc862542907612fa5c98/8619965395.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muvidufuliroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/57711630442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16898511404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/tasisujitilifunijabena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b841d3dbb---52146915098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevvalturizm.com/rsm/files/4198515542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintjorisparochie.nl/userfiles/file/vipavarufuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralastatetailorsassociation.com/userfiles/file/bimigupolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/ravojulosuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongphuc.vn/userfiles/file/92428778139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9f5b30d8f---mekikexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/jobaxivuwujevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145564ecda6b---fumorofinoloripimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/76884332049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnlcoach.com/misc2/file/In PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/wuzudili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/81554245705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/92677046488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/gofakoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2260487191f37e8a111769446c5cc670/buganijidunomorew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/sisomudatomebemumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/nefasapakixowujiriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/47056589169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c41aa083465699fb65341521831870/gamepikopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ghd+sports+like+appPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA1A 10516 bytes
SHA-256: d44553c33314e5c621fa070b668dea4e781cb6e9b602781a6e75cf842881ae76
font_01_sfnt_off0000e22d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3F 16612 bytes
SHA-256: c21aa2654a9ed4c7cc1960bf0194a1eb9c401517500c90d00ccc83d482ea624d

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