Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3949011a68239c09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 09:09:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 95462762234a8ef5817230860cd25d43 SHA-1: 0577ced184cc39f84d3cd4ad02261e83deb69fd4 SHA-256: 3949011a68239c09ccf62844b39826157f9ad6fa1e42b8e5851b263b63108d72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link farm rule further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pierna+de+puerco+adobada+al+horno PDF link annotation
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3a5e0664a---58899561046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg73v90g2lqn3tkvtaqbaiiueg/mivirijetejojimenogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5230093f10b9802985037e06e42dffb/polufupazibumawurew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793e6fe8ce4---4307519824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb1004.com/userData/board/file/5812091873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f634627a8ec523513c924338bea6b3eb/dojexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7343f099af---37266722775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c2316e2ec---65216511449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911eca8d027---waxonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5pld8bq8b1qbslhgsofog432o/romozivifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cainghienbinhduong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/93214070217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609accd5950de---jomebeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/nolatumekozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file/%5C/99605521554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb82e95439---guguliminuxosuwunopusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a71b5f1f9036c20c0cd737024254403/16266891478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F8 3056 bytes
SHA-256: 383de28b9aa3baae7e761585a69e6fa3fa7bb7dcabd0abc505436b5e94e2cca3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F0 5124 bytes
SHA-256: f9e22a0934a6098e79441a21133f4a4b2a5c7a1819528bf414cd9bbac4f75110
font_02_sfnt_off0001063e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063E 6148 bytes
SHA-256: 149738eb3e1d0bfb4a5732e89a115965e6f0cf3fc4971c694d3ce3619176544d
font_03_sfnt_off0001161d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161D 11880 bytes
SHA-256: 741f67fa5cbcf8d30c10ab32f1cfc7b861afb2ad9030a0e9590eb87592359342
font_04_sfnt_off00013c7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C7E 16684 bytes
SHA-256: cc86994599ca2b6bade3ef2a24080e5ca7d0105f80c2e61a4a6d43fb5994c661