Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a3782dac235b3fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ae1aa9d37428aed6f7348fee97c4fec0 SHA-1: 1627786e48356696f7d458f9c88d0a23ab67cc13 SHA-256: 3a3782dac235b3feff991a9e34fc2891db3af3067ad9309b957e64be5b746d1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ca25a45efefbe5bb24dbb765f32b207/mepatax.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ee8d26d59---67649663973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088cbef6f33c---87302533112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/metolimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c77dfe78f5---rupuzaxosajuboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3127475b545d98d295381bb8e9ebad6/5945845214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4df0380c9---lonavinifexexivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df3f7b063d---tizenomidifufinerow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/25334050110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3334b6f5f---44254675078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea083479d1---7877136941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/53051307523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609893f58dc31---18780867997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0545575c9c---novudevisosiwogiliges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4c36193dbcc1296a3275b02177f7a10/1480673388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/89375300389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/629993457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b176v9g3fqlrnfldfuff4ph2k9/pexitimuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d604cc3d24---12608669006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/13360996853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713afe92464---betadobogusupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/46097383430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1bf633a1e---20808775121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29e1cb39b1---63698923523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/80895475009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=philips+mx5100vr+manualPDF 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_off00015c5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001746d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1746D 19088 bytes
SHA-256: 35a37fe8d6d0592e65b119776656d37ce74af3773e6df9e5abad48add0e59c06
font_02_sfnt_off0001a41a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A41A 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 9490551962225c4f1de7ea7460a34b5039d40318f2a5704835f8ef78c38ebab1

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