Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a585837a501da26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.2 KB Created: 2021-07-28 11:49:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 920e4d733bc96046d328551f5c972c82 SHA-1: f0a4668141e1e92870414fd8f2eebb0ae4629b4f SHA-256: 3a585837a501da2666203fc8c3da3e2d5eb8dc8ba3c88c29519846c9116767c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in some URLs point towards an effort to obscure the final destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for wider reach.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/36616048125.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab21565846---kabipakakerakegowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d667265ee21---57860365661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc614c45896599c07dc570ec9ec9624/25247835569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikfvauetp2s74aaq1u0ms1j8bb/nasulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a8c61f9d2---53331177720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///bogexalagijifiberivikimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9vu50rvuk9h6j0317m3t1bo1h/xafajuvusepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42aa746de6---16513010921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilupemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/regabuvadafevefuxuvorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820c646a35c---71157719358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/62353891658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/tulisamudoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc65e171389---99062124017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67e3e0f960f47dcee5f1f8397fe281b5/94594753606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/getumozitudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/3873155386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee62da63bc24a7248d1d7c586bd70fe/72963248965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725433be5b4---9103600069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dbef221f502ff966e983f78470b4f2b/20348992788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/10784157410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulolufuvawage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4abe8865fa---tamaboganaruziletexejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=www+androidoyun+club+nss+eski+surumPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000120ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FF 10956 bytes
SHA-256: df4afe6d91a536a29eca3179d6778228cdcb3119a73af6c7811ebffa2966c6de
font_02_sfnt_off00013a63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A63 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off00014fa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FA4 19956 bytes
SHA-256: 1b5fb710ddd69cc8956481850a53b17a000497ee9467e6f2a8be1c38c625ca93