Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a3a34f0777cb829…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:22:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 33227608bdc33fa8aab801b0a4dd8fb5 SHA-1: 431fb42453cdc584603100898a394624280ef890 SHA-256: 3a3a34f0777cb829fd31689351e9c95fd325d2a605c1ce54d0f4ab8cf81133b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs and the overall structure align with phishing and malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/kopatajevagot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eff0750834---gapimigubaxeriwonagego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3fca837b4c75dd13dc18a58b5f068bb/85746992256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30i0kpp9oa16ter62kb6r5coof/13790387014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/62352318479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210729201401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d9737830c1c1a5d894fd9f8e0401334/zebodepesemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c831e4f409ff3c11b070973039dc7fb/79473258063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91906859636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dija.lv/public/userfiles/file/junapimalewilisenapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/felorekadokisonuvututo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0n6ouqun5gde96fji1pmi2nfsj/41678305152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/93948349379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/xusavusopixokalixixiludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/kositixajowasekaraluraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08c6deb55d26d94c9d0867c1502d8bc/zasesikuxuponupilexanubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080afee6e4f1---rasomavimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a772a7975---97169783712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93571920998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/soxuridajulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210626013302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/segajabusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ifs1gpft491urve6re414httkr/sarogevopatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608099875cbcf---nutuzadewoxesape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=academic+word+list+toefl+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3E 18232 bytes
SHA-256: 5aede11dcaee1400be09639e775e4b64777116b67c9a50e9acf81c88043aaaa4
font_01_sfnt_off00010bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F1 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 76520c44d39d1b03552c8912f51ee52323ad9fb986e3cb7ae1dfe24da3a3462c