Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3931c066acd7ee67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-09 23:16:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7af4af47668b37e14b35867c4d4ca95f SHA-1: c24a8804df8b4525fbbc2263e6463807cd730b85 SHA-256: 3931c066acd7ee67b8cba1690fe646b7c7b293937b979c05dabfe195cca2e6fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1a935e2b4---73841225804.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/289916c5a9dca57b25bf58a125c18cdb/71717583994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7680d224fa687ff6f8308b86a8afde94/gepozajufejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g7hddg9t2v8evpeisi3j9opj6/tuponezuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf92q6b6j5c90ej1sveapc1351/7983499376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9d437b348---remanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a1603f790---67105162278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e6175789---gewaxamixonejubakefemidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8853979ef---musivujefipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/26099551459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familycrawford.com/clients/3/31/31f1fdc6e90c562b7578e9c437f7c1bf/File/60537828704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851aee89adf---1868050581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/vuzilirajarezikizipavini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fcudsss560kccatpvook0kkqn/70641241679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fer0amn7qmd6d1bqdgrir4duck/45115691677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/46972140419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b2d99e842b556d0d8f9d535e4279dfc/24164364256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/gajejodovotetolopoxenabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-stainlesssteel.com/uploads/image/files/xugiwizediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologyforeverybody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40442051991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/16292657165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+ring+of+time+eb+whitePDF 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_off0000ee93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE93 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 5f5f5a530af56af0c71488e4a818185c4af88524b82ff11fa4bc7b919d4ed1ce
font_01_sfnt_off00010633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10633 16820 bytes
SHA-256: a9eb666af7b59510cfe2b69ca4e3e2446765c358cc292f4e61d2e651d0c5eac7
font_02_sfnt_off000131e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1