Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3abd725000a44130…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:21:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4c93280e8bf98abc32369b7aed89e9e1 SHA-1: 9f014da3814b63feae601f1c2f91ba3af75f3bee SHA-256: 3abd725000a44130474b2878b169011c19b35e06e3918b899f62e220ad91683f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/18956642180.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18d90d6864---24986861675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r6h2t41u2rvs76rj7rjt91f9a/fuvezamafejorirekasovuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/22475295401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e5ac1e33bfd47d410a05261c8d54d1/15106623711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f449c4983---jibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92f59474619fecdce4aa24217453164/jukepezura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsunyapi.com/userfiles/files/57618043502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallytour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210717_3A22DF5BFDA02DF1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/75283868461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bf20014a10eca22f23e3a535f98e51e/50793452534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/pibujidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f42e430b0c5---fenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/bogabozixoxejotala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fmkp89k75e903t00lqhu04k5o1/35403516299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotobambagiotti.it/userfiles/files/9626933907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6fe3e6cd88---valojarojufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/gusemiwatizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/89815108417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210715154721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/32583027678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba78e41b8b7---pimufetitadumedikadimakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0tjv5od1o00kpfht27brgkn9k/kexavixoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a72dbe94e6---xubugenetuzafawavixojusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csvhu65dtr9l2r91ermog9dvar/sufejuveziwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=suffixes+exercises+worksheets+pdfPDF 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_off0000ce7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE68C 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 92731228c18dac882060332c2bc71390d5d5a290f56bb3e7d932af9a7ad66b83
font_02_sfnt_off00011287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11287 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 19b02b741e9fac2e0f49db4740095bff8bdc3e5ec7da6377d31099840235e87c