Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3950f5f50d024681…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-06-24 21:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 06f63453390966b047ee65e27631c1fc SHA-1: 6e56803d3f14a9ff0a3eeb5b8ea020596c0db6e7 SHA-256: 3950f5f50d0246814f1765c867a1f10b842e4188530a6803de28e752f18854da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4315b1468---81134908896.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/92459826669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc5c883a87---botakokaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607648db80644---lapanibagazulosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085706715634---vikanepikasasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cedaceb6645---17980333317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlf90m4vcfq7lqvlqgk2haqlhr/timolonot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f669a7837c---99003078913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78bc0c2e3b10b6bdadbee3f7bb99f25a/29804226169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmdms48gjpeieg8f46a6frpp62/lizepefokekufibafonovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lafe5b1pq6m9m8sn4uapk75u3/19464342830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b28197fd5d---36850437147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3650002f5---5441887012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d300ebb8124a0f4b9327bc5b8d3e1181/15726553744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/10781328290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ef77e72eaa46015296c9d9a1fd5f25d/85730440691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/67441272966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b880c71b6b---kexaxagikinegoseliterez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tenali+rama+stories+in+kannada+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off000104ba.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x104BA 45544 bytes
SHA-256: c3652757ee1fc2d39740111fb9e8d93145827cd963b0e231b1c0197c5adf0b42
font_00_sfnt_off0000f323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF323 5200 bytes
SHA-256: ff36e6a1b67e6fe984cc33e87e3350916bfe13dff4d399473edb9bdfba14936d
font_02_sfnt_off00015176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15176 10460 bytes
SHA-256: f30cfdd4085fe5c682a14bcca7c3dda830daae9caa8b63377ecd3a850bc72c13
font_03_sfnt_off00017548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17548 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 97d284a3855420cdbdae34860f31dacc38605590ea495453bf7f5ba3a9d42ecf