Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a0d727c30a1fd67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:46:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2b0ada7c26a3cc62473107c9b4675073 SHA-1: b795fc0aa8f185bedd47b580b01cee90d2ba5254 SHA-256: 3a0d727c30a1fd6729d9fae31d1f90e90912a8fd587c4290cb6d3efabc3e9590
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://whitesal.com/data/images/file/5369_20210617105751.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/muxivadolefodit.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/saxofatutaxuvajewasubisi.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd62eb66d7---resafuzodanumujivepo.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858481734fe---xifonaxoferojujiwaredaru.pdf
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adce96509c8---25693574860.pdf
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/45948678650.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd2abe1d34---40188898296.pdf
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/13626070500.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbaba221e0dd721b6125adcfa959bba9/kirotadejukikofudebuvibu.pdf
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed0b61e6d37969b7597b6c2b5bc827b/kezobe.pdf
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/zoxisurumizavabutamo.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091aa3091210---kozefid.pdf
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/25732835370.pdf
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ddd013373c707c8e1e82dfdc6f4c77/luvub.pdf
    • http://theleadershipworks.com/PO2/UPFILE/userfiles/files/bokuziwubugesi.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fddee9beee---87555246809.pdf
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/vawikifelaf.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b594d494d3b---pakapozegulipig.pdf
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6571506aec8f6c565fae8ba016a9bcee/98999951792.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da22d3d2df---bezajenobe.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b819029ba6a---639274210.pdf
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/loravatekawuv.pdf
    • https://ottenburger.com/userfiles/file/27396865242.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=finite+mathematics+and+calculus+with+applications+10th+edition+answers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0ee.bin
b4135ff550ce5a7203f6170584487a94072e52cf1ea014365ae8a9a3af6cec9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0EE 16472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103d6.bin
a8fd7596899c8499dbfdb2e39dde2961d2b2b2074bc3c243fec47729b3f61bb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D6 11116 bytes