Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a5ab83671cd774a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:46:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 33a06d17fd91afc1619cf345ea717571 SHA-1: c007f6197027866d1690622302f05e8084ec7016 SHA-256: 3a5ab83671cd774aec0ca3f3cfa2004439c08efc86491ad68375a23e27629869
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and links indicates a coordinated effort to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cecaccca23202717aaa6bf6d6c90e43d/63119255091.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6868100157a4478728113e831e52a415/98854423397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75700a1d966bfe6a362c43955ddd54b8/4782454167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/kilimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744ff9da1fd---99948796549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087189618e8c---4071258676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e889b7d4bfb5e36a523b87c65dfc8d46/7691372623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03bb2034257aa0db821a1bc1ad8fe85/xiruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad18d24995---75265542973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/71292444202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/fidemabisedurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/72144989378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978532e6204---66483329587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/bajiguwebuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcecd5eceb4---kuteleruwerigibugusenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/76233182624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab7c472d9c98972cf40cbb7bd4e5d1af/4159237181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fa586da3794dcca67348ccab2373b7d/majutemuturasafavatoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cd47b8706---fejonanisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2svfadq906e431i8das4meg6up/sibevomaliripuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d616e33dd---27332615627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e579f708516d15ae10a299a24bf9cd6f/98874482123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/2403097300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=solid+fun+math+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000f63b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63B 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 133bec5ea4d77ae367ce0d5a9ef8cff855178bcebf9595e6aeb243ac165f4db3
font_01_sfnt_off00012269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12269 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A80 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 08eed242aceb6ca5ee12bf1b21932b34f014a008ec93ce354dc109d83e4fc961