Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3930d10c7226c5b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 01:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 25d148b8da9694371ba1ad21ca480a6b SHA-1: 9712558d268bfa156336ed9f0ee4655e80bfc1da SHA-256: 3930d10c7226c5b5f63820181cf365dd2bda4835f13c99839752753191b537b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting it's used for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the hosting (compromised CMS uploads, disposable domains) strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-28/20210428210418363429.pdf
    • https://tangente-mag.com/img/file/90587563448.pdf
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9627d2900b---26480717333.pdf
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojsmbfovm0nomnh8g9o8v3dl97/29887782106.pdf
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/metotad.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92b49b97165779bd44bf91d29adfc1d6/pebumube.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609528acd8498---86735826077.pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1972e2977dc8bb86169efbc161cceb39/sukinaritenijamapokewox.pdf
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents//files/seluwat.pdf
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b0fecc761ce9ba38e693c53e1c292a/tukodasibuvil.pdf
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd41024541b9b8e2d45b55af7f1c8d91/lulivuxaruzekoxerep.pdf
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/tigumokupojezipepamino.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96e75e7a2d4239bccdcf2b9e0b015202/74038051630.pdf
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d967871d8eabed48bffd0c8b895d682/75291281554.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609776d3f3f7a---diwetumeteta.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d40410da3c---pepefixajazutumefufifi.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083862a2367b---dexubimorewija.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=trading+candlestick+patterns+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1e3.bin
3a39994d182d038b231e4e1b3576331f9e02b27cd35024f57401ebab1505de2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E3 3456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee42.bin
7823c9f3927e7ddf4f2bb1ab3b8df7fa067558ce22128a7f7b89f04a46a36c4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE42 5336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001007c.bin
c794eebfdb8493b74f34b0f7e0d68383598dee542ce3380fe253f3d76dbdfbfd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007C 11360 bytes