Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3899fbfee24f8345…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-21 12:17:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c8ad5f208233c5b64aca123ed09de53f SHA-1: ef721a19de095d2e06f691d00bd66b13b5db5226 SHA-256: 3899fbfee24f8345c6375a9b291ad8e9b3bf83546452af888dbab3633e8cda30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites hosted on potentially compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce33218bc44---lazusawuxafom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/46742586968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/97092615525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamedia.vn/data/file/33360644357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d931a0d138e83b14c6a58fca32645348/31764608281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slippersymposium.com/clients/875641/File/xosokozatijuxevikoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5238526099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccc6ea7816---jojefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conniecorsentino.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ruvuvitarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b12c2db25---jewikunuzapaxejuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9cb8420ec---xiximefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bce5a0d6ae---32887620419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b829b6784---pawaseruwovusejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161046b177e36d---36561569952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f380ddcab---14565240280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b7edb4690539180f94854882be0c899/gubofivikedakano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garystrike.com/clients/3/30/301ae0ed988f9237e4cb8f8c41f6cb36/File/pineni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87458507321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/14866401956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents//files/fonokekunajuvosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d309be7730---kixunolexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starfoil-mail.nl/uploads/wysiwyg/12979705459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd3qbakhf2u0p4o29oqk4oj6l1/79747435570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b50c7bc42697eae04a3aab5aaa864459/poratimozasunejijudizima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/fijiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzhangqin.com/uploadfile/files/84644185855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94718757925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=java+programming+for+beginners+mark+lassoff+pdfPDF 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_off0000ee88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001069a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069A 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 8bdba4129a3681f182fd4e08b879ac707c8539f6cb1f4ac3cd966e82ea48c1bd
font_02_sfnt_off00013641.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13641 11032 bytes
SHA-256: d5a350e3bdf15668ba4d65f3b37b3c83d0fecb386137d99789c388682aecad90