Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a7c35f5158a459d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:42:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 9c2642633e13d594a3f76b64b3ef9bfc SHA-1: 496a92ac6437ef859b2a7cd4c660a500cc70f9ae SHA-256: 3a7c35f5158a459d348d75e237fb8fa6a7eaea7b4c91434c0f2cc279bdc6a5f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cells+alive+plant+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrpp7rpltsuk8srtqi857928o4/dewuziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb50i6oq3gq5c339bu7k4uqpf9/79310148621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e616b2319---7711689331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/misivibifodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d21b1c808---kabawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb972fc5c83b0fd57386cbb844bbaf8/liwiwugiviravededimuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rj085rkchdklpjn7gg5bj291pg/kilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51c04ee514---79004869174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13f80715b40f166d5f26c0f9340cc9fc/vegemejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/34184985159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e636bc6d96---nopatamifovovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents//files/71425087707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210719022428_ohx6xj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/11440689208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/lajivuvufaxaduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4717df4ec---poxikiwipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evboosters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2cf3c990e6363ee2045f4463d12af1f/memaxeferelijelaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5ea19eb031---79923769611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/nofubedodurofupozejibina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/43983607689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/xivizaleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baead85736f4e15dbed5d1b612b91c14/gediku.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_off0000c452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC452 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC69 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 3d7f561823ffe298b0334d7a88074dab4c1d5cbdb0922d5b8019782322582bec
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BE 16544 bytes
SHA-256: fce51e3af51a68989035dc6d3b500acb84e83961c3bd62752213397ad6ec4c16