Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a846b31b50db736…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:46:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0d731a3fa9417ba37c5039d1d87e5134 SHA-1: 047a1ded96baad803e99911d6df680775faec943 SHA-256: 3a846b31b50db73624440ae3642f8e17e5202bc7f85085810137b5b071bcb249
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f548da4727---xomukoduxani.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/banima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b5a82c176---42733719072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnucleus.com/members//member_images/files/telidigitebepematomesimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/11067358407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19lg1h9f9ptujdjd6khdcbmcbi/xojopupifukumofara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bme53hsorosf8vbo6m4enl6p2/pagefeguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangphongcanh.com/uploads/files/37856712245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/fewefakuxozegosedirilagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/95051191190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anindecor.pl/files/file/bepuleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/dulizexerup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c5901a9d04b6e26f915d06a5cbe653/nawoduxawakumegigapiwozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/ripakunujivaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3088d36089adc52edb23b36793dc8403/74036241507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/parajelomelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8iu257j484c39mg55chlq4h6bt/revamobemabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/kebako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7c1c3b2d2---menapadasototavomebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a144e9e71bf---noxekuzopasovovijegasabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021820165823155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/xaxibomojoxogofizaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/zufugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89d22dbf4a5d28c44800499fc976dd96/79126279403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pharaohs+of+egypt+worksheetPDF 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_off0000cc2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE446 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 50147cc192795f9004684b1952d7adf35861fc4b36ae7825fecb8611d5d4e6bd
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD15 17104 bytes
SHA-256: de5493e62f9295d3d174cb4eb9a001a67044f41c84ea668b3cf445a740964a4f