Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a106e2b886d9c39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:16:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fb30b547975ee1433dc709dad321f9cf SHA-1: bb7f2894a3879d04a002401093c21c5e6d66bfb3 SHA-256: 3a106e2b886d9c390718269ec41ee3340a1b4dd8fd10596d5420397f22ec6375
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it uses a 'Browser extension / update installation lure' to trick users into installing malicious software. The document also contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern points to social engineering for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940f708f2cc---filudodusitigomivasim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/54695600481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11521231514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9e8b2a650f146f76ca560000fed7e57/53068411256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r03141cj94vh8cubr9qn9giq53/41618077635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4cd02b5b5c---pupiwokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b85c8911b2---kereniraripoworofojokixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80257500687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rltclassof1970.com/clients/8/8f/8ff9f19c840b982a6efda18ba8bb483c/File/mebumakatedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3a9173d2450b65daba3206839e0dae/88172194460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/doziwisibimigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/gewamev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3asoft.vn/img/files/97578287515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm9ckl46eh21mft39rnv5tsaj2/leruradovosoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5ba4a41b4---21668228194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba6b010082---27333696763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/32190434682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/fisajizulenibepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/98029211165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs168.tw/upfiles/editor/files/peked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ffbccea2d---19729546660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/71962080370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f426620ed---20455438942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab40f9474e909e6ce76cf7b62774ef8/dunawesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kup-vino.cz/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13668264251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+factory+reset+polaroid+tablet+s7PDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51ff2957c76b96fde83db727e12f2ee9/xexoxinexofasetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ef1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001072e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072E 16724 bytes
SHA-256: 9c56ab1acad25d21ba0c31e7c9ef62512520ec967bf83025fb2cb729101d0cc4
font_02_sfnt_off000132ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EA 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 9f820395615aa4c1ac9d534fa547a045743d5bf6fc67eb1bc5fdfa7a0c099f85