Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a7989444b75444d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:01:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bad54dfc595f56582620e8e3a75d8115 SHA-1: 8ee5442983685c83de1185d67595891f7bf0fa13 SHA-256: 3a7989444b75444d7d92403a4e5de41bceabaa83ae49fd2ff943ad9eaa616340
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious URLs, as evidenced by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+share+apps+from+phone+to+computer PDF link annotation
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4e14a1f83d68faeedd30cc9cb444740/bezofodosiderinepikopuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurukripapublicschool.org/userfiles/file/81189905961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/87722822287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614159180b9df---xuzozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/14857831897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41973915125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pzhjintai.com/upload/files/sasegitanavozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecostationery.com/files/file/kiximatorovugetixepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-elektron.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natarurowiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartoriaventurini.com/userfiles/files/tukifinepuzigivujavegolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/88769954277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140f19bc4d18---loradolemerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edex.co/userfiles/files/xisekemiwunuzirenuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/4343433118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snabsz.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35376528544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/wodigagogezusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/bazupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satuldelut.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetofanaxetupovuritozuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/3366051888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/34229526869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/legalosinusimilaviloxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmicropilotes.com/uploads/files/zisafojaliwuwejisuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fecbce3c92---birelazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b90aadcf6553fc931bec72165026798/witegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA82 10784 bytes
SHA-256: ee63231a0add7d25614ee4ec7cfc157af56299db88678f3308f3322c594add4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF344 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B56 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 8438ec91293844ab1eafa7e519274b794a7bbd24d4d05392f4eacf1d52931c90