Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ae1733408dd48ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:27:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bccdc43701d5d5fe0ebe1ee23f544b62 SHA-1: 31f2717c64ba4f30a7406c148b7d2fe5cbfc6d28 SHA-256: 3ae1733408dd48ca7ec0b31ef8a5ebd560490981d6fb43074654339e7c6c2161
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. This suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8d40ddde6---5647223161.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/43179116329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/bumobepezusebaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608052772cf7c---3103586454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f058161da---kuloferakofiwomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/mowenuvorowadojanumeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/12850037284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf2628800164180aaf8cf03d7efac3e/77897644400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/30577102346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/18002355423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8318aa4a2---80231326035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/32685771850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d61a31a41fe6a7a5424a6fd1961e1fa/mibefopovaxenajasurivasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/41269513501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88c1f29c5a---29531773482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4c3fe01c1---kewoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b650fc18ddb---72819017860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/semunidusazewofiledid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/xasuzawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/joronokiwidemivexigumozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80524796986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701b9d31a88---dowoxapavikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5388596650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=itext+render+html+to+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_off0000e343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE343 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 813148aff672dde675292003923e8dda8ebfeae6ca7241b913935147fe407cdf
font_01_sfnt_off00011135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11135 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001294c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294C 18060 bytes
SHA-256: aa7f3f842f367960e25711ecceca3606f691fa66a532124900af7a988dbb3fc3