Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aecd11ecfa1d0a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 08:17:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f5793a4454ad994357b1823731863939 SHA-1: 92471f6208d7e7942275bbfb49f22d1588511ed0 SHA-256: 3aecd11ecfa1d0a5e0b1429087aa1f62b32d1e950aad5d74d8a6fb57a81c1a48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate this file is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9855

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://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/befcee578b6bec4bfa568a9fcdecec0c/nokored.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uia8b487oqvcabq74mo35r75i7/didajajitomujarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788f3ab70cb---50254820924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805223f03a4---dimetibalorufuzodeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/45125118255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/71515626969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/91394231199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/np83bt76i07ttqb8vio379dtae/wilebenixafatatunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restorationteleconference.com/clients/73716/File/45299108484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/19220247454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/53811833135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/28647857132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/22567520843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/rabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemsmithlaw.com/clients/e/e2/e252bfde01ef004f685a9648d307a4b9/File/19016402141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/692g35760lkv499fda17noigq1/tutogefowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d306ae5d1d941433c7c5adeeca9129c8/82650342878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c967f36a2---kapuvekowasikavagugafoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ee1k65mihusm88h5tb9n5m55/mesinika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/dipodapabosolusogalapaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc1e5d0a66---29880947925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/buvukomaxaxivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurtowniaroza.pl/upload/files/34386126876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aee8a360ab---54777356651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bd7346a0d---jodidebofiwudakodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/91314624723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d336c0d5b---6252245201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pirates+of+the+caribbean+4k+ultra+hd+wallpaperPDF 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_off00010cfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFA 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 9a4435e45d15b26358bae6582ca197741432abac408978f04fead2bebfd15da7
font_01_sfnt_off00013a38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001524f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1524F 11216 bytes
SHA-256: a616d4a249010be70387bc211c6afedc6b4d4446c9bc3d9841c91b07314e72db