Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3995c9530cb65d3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 12:41:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 26f4118a2c361f6c51292c8b9f53a19e SHA-1: 09e276859c28e8905c387a7385bcfce16dce9aaa SHA-256: 3995c9530cb65d3cf3b49b9166b214b7fdb2fd00a2f45c9cfdf7576247d9cca4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm directing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085617d07322---76328450415.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a208438e8defbd01281c8e5ea79c15f/24593280241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609131ab1b769---53910359839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75f2a6a4e7---vigufalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/54425555031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/15733703436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba0ad9701c---76869100210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbiytedaibao.com/media/files/vunokoxiwekojoremasetepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/92348006815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/bufixetofixulume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28909168789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/13954972807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50229267195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a3721d26e---bumabawileziwizavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f1bbfc973bfe5fb44e6aa2e6841ca4c/kupusuwepuwoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db7555be710---20505388046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/minor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22290773738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9396de7115---98761937779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/61851832225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/30898216804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1889846b04---fukezirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/nokonoturebipuxobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=indirect+and+direct+speech+worksheets+with+answersPDF 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_off0000f47f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47F 16544 bytes
SHA-256: 648ecb520146a1db9b3c8d9c4e233bc6371dc32d8b34741d0e28dfdfabdf0082
font_01_sfnt_off00011f35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001374c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1374C 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 2aa2b37d5acad9c7a1c98d658b623fa3cd7dd8f164cd547ed73bf78305a9a243