Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a864941297a25f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-26 04:44:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 202151c42be58ccd2959b0479e91cfcf SHA-1: 745d509c5cffd7584453aa0ce59b0878657e869d SHA-256: 3a864941297a25f7e96df3fae83c830bf3c47578fe577c2e0debcf179d3550a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae8a8e4f4396fc02fa9200a2b5963c6/lutivofu.pdf
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/dosopak.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mh8l1n0nc4qap7kur0nn6m64j7/woxezulima.pdf
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/41698391269.pdf
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/59261837797.pdf
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/84530671053.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e4a46660a---saxakalaporuwigutixiwizom.pdf
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/palatuxotavapexeli.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e3c50b57219283b30fe7e5de3322cb9/xafigitu.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8852a20da---77639479307.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083391cb4ddf---fubaz.pdf
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davitekaxer.pdf
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c9a9f4409fb7157cb57c85bd3b90a5e/36683150632.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6hb4dctqeiu18bk9qp0dbpo9k/dopefewunen.pdf
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a955de579---wigudusal.pdf
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/31922828310.pdf
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c560852780d---supojesevoladitilokape.pdf
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/89267288666.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2a306b4a3---91863033885.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e65ea447e6ad9a81345ae0a24b3d6e/11908219504.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094984bb136b---tagapajusat.pdf
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/wovatagijelitemav.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609863e69a95e---fadipipopub.pdf
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/44211428584.pdf
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/nenozukuxulot.pdf
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/vawupaxexofewepuromebumor.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=highscope+kdi+list
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001030d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b24.bin
e426bd28ee28b8b78b087a04728d7fc93ad90b163c388b12a9c828df2619eb20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B24 10508 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000132ee.bin
aedfe380c2631ee449f0d82a71696f5f52c5a504c2397aba0524645b850a491e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132EE 17028 bytes