Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3983fb94cdcf48fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1021f845748e5170666841f0a108317c SHA-1: f1c1b2238efad5fd7b2cdb182e5427e77612d876 SHA-256: 3983fb94cdcf48fefa0ddd6602da93fa414a63a535ec954b84c498bf875235a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, identified by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these compromised hosts, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902c54b1f3a---vepubudoxivefewifixefaku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc1278872e---18262651298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db4760d08e---4107083209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c995788d36440492e33d1ac73ea77a8/72292456966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/kolezasexekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1c946d256---rudalozuvowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/85622670797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/jasajejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6eef881ffb---xaxalibafiwenupitofapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31cab5573e0f614002ffef4437973eb9/55913763741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/mufakaxuxikuzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/71745883188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/tobepademulivajadexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///xubazaxalitabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/300055359680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wotagadiwegabomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad01501f943---43627790680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/60b7a7626ad96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607761b8c2499---dipufutivozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///garupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4563d172db---kizikanonuvexakakago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3048e4554de38d72e3a541f79e83bba5/40998280840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/judolit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/nidopazefetawerejuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+some+examples+of+uninsurable+risksPDF 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_off0000f503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF503 19096 bytes
SHA-256: fe1151083265cfce992a551558588da4c26eb2370fdf9b6576a927467c7e20a1
font_01_sfnt_off00012638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12638 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 588584558372ebd3a6217569a96525aa38ea2d107fc2c6cc4216125201fbe7fe
font_02_sfnt_off00013f91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1