Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3905ab5cb09b839c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ae55fc44cbc67aab90dba9e9a26af1e4 SHA-1: 6a460b3069dd1e5961fbb01e8188944579ef92ed SHA-256: 3905ab5cb09b839c5482065ce87e29bc702305d44b09c7889295f1eb5d966b07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a common tactic of using compromised sites to host or link to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/79284731362.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a6ada6e310ca6dd8ed685d7954b9df/91992332104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75bdfd88b8---89705147340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af74e213665---61278870569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5dac1bccde1aaedc5c1fb2148a226a9/28170576037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/65527981062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/gikib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbdcc3251c---60171668922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105ca97e8508---85044221580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/96956050054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e2e785de66d9bab5abb1bc70b0fc659/guratikekoduwubebovipexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goergenpainting.com/clients/0/0d/0d1038892961fdbf96b6a8e7e8daca8f/File/fudukavibiranipuvirivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/kexumixogefepesozabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99f19361b---23870827805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bd1edd3b07f8b6526a2d9ad854fdfb/fabugevuvirobadagifoxejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/38855123275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8767fa311d7a4e1ce1dabde5f540a8cc/83654174502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/8144912931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/natororelavivafawabebina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b291366eeb---pesawabazotogajisene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/boribomawikerixadiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5421a782c689bbf95e1fcb23f52fe9c/dapame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcevent.com/clients/871459/File/32463566406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bf2367310---5393138280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/novoxaziven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90833190593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75a9a138e5c413dca2b997d86b7f830a/xojukolatetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ars+goetia+pdf+completoPDF 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_off0000e31d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE31D 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 91d76d22e971b9a784ce3f0f19f34b4bb01611ee82b73f9e3c385caa9d59d428
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFB 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 479cf0aa6cc5fd7e2effb4cf7d5716fc29795e180b4275527bbdddf7684c8f3e
font_02_sfnt_off0001290e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1290E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1