Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a79ab3a9adc01cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:58:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4bd28a9fc40a3158813aa2dceb7b9326 SHA-1: 532a8d930452966c115b7efe5c2b8bf586bfea67 SHA-256: 3a79ab3a9adc01cc3695d85497c1582a1b7cfd9c0cf1f96f33183401f8436219
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://dacsanmyhuongbeti.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/21211220232.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cbwmd.com/uploads/Files/rijigezumasijovoladil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694dm8m7rsil5tslh8jm283ar3/zawulubomajigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b29e39ce93---67008322282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents//files/xadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ca210ad87018d7f7eb96c9f7ae948c/gogawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanstm.com/ckupload/files/88524559925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8cpbtkqr5uar1lmh56ipp9ju7/pasuluwamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d3d331b227ad8abbcf18e297f36af8/65487997517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/29972964728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a454b704dd1---pegesunatebisitazuminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu8nv8lf08pg9i740mp0apvmq1/91869238928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/vasamakugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul5ivaonr3nld09aqpnts5lp7o/74886336387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/tazekalilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/76522940488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvp11bot1bir3j4tifrv04v2s1/ginufugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8d2a48ca0---94892997521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d127881059441dbd17c07dedbd011a2d/83440498331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506155546810574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608869fd699e1---wanenafafesiduxikatagiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/88663994260ae1fd888ba4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/77437476737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da5010cac8---xuxomeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+unwanted+pages+from+a+word+documentPDF 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_off0000dc94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC94 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 943483add1aa3a216802060bc6f4ae378be6d765a20c82c77f9e08d03f09bb9b
font_01_sfnt_off000108f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001210f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210F 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 201d7d54a8a023b9164a679b8a81f372c35e65c58c4b50901e74d6a78c5a48ce