Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3965a5c784a5a9d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 13:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f35b92f29f7d4ea7b365b3531324ffcf SHA-1: 526eeb506bf4962c55a0e9ec9b180a4d916a6e70 SHA-256: 3965a5c784a5a9d5e338483957c13af1b6a5dc9a9e6a8779b2ee3c6065e058ba
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a lure for a password-protected archive. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a textbook lure. The embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, likely used to host or distribute the malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e4068db8---89719090283.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eccbeb58c5---70356983727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f73d95ce7a---15399974574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160932fcf5ce33---88235532681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882cc7d5f1e491fe50c1a66715a49042/xitovobirezobisomadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6dfa709344---jubukikade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9227ff37f47c8374b1ba6d2b80b42494/90302491038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30d58ca1252a69964fdfc931cfe5e97d/nosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cd851c95b---77521003833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073879919b4c---rejububokuwukife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/72786926496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968ce5a51d0---vojupujofitidopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/jafedewogafirawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k94947q5j36tibtuc5e57rg5r4/98634487863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72a08e9993---robetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a9f5e65ac---mumajumevimewenezumetele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a5515c8cc---59664492026.pdfIn 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/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pearson+pre+calculus+12+textbook+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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC67 5604 bytes
SHA-256: c67eaf896099b304a5354abd70a3412e4fe7dd4de5e64b2b129f5d374783e1b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000df8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8C 11056 bytes
SHA-256: d45440bb5b870ce23a8021d30a5a0b690a4cfa5a22fb0edbdb686f54e9b13e6f