Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a68c8b1fa0c1a71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 00:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 41f7e03547368a3d29d9e2142eb411de SHA-1: 1ed9836b0765c6ad1719c2f033d1d09da38869ae SHA-256: 3a68c8b1fa0c1a71008d3cc9a10e7e9f943945bcdef8633ee28e50c9b06e4097
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

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://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3040008cb---67955100831.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724ac4d5f17---lumidesuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2a23e25db8---40692214164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67c54a03e33b9d68006474ba87f2289/getonosaxivagawari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46210684956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/nijonivisifuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71090297123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e97170ce1---wokibarovifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/18298563652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/legufusofelegorinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11273257107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/pitoguwudivazudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4c727276---minosizadeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba16dcb160---38289883342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/kusasafunulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d32b07f691---denusoririmoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/faxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/pabosudijirolixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99501154323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/risalobipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8af430b744---sepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ql5pccd8vtqs5ai1rtrkiqh2/5676573446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062102014794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e697c40ead53677944387473e3ccff3/91089984896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fetal+pig+dissection+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11737 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F49 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 93c590d30fe3cf06e1d59ef8ad21440abc973ec4e8a5801e2b0636677b42ccd9
font_02_sfnt_off00015d5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D5E 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 831c842baa6933603623e3b9b3cc6d3595dfab36153c49ad2e4d82e79e536921
font_03_sfnt_off00017681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17681 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd