Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aff1ed414847a3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c70b902058596fc858bfb9201806a27a SHA-1: 0530858a35bade3bf161c3d29ff7103d15c8c24c SHA-256: 3aff1ed414847a3bd9fd77b8366df87f72a0132aafd311571dccf964fbb27313
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the Formcraft plugin for file uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bce1ee88f---donowididisaxono.pdf
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/43388014019.pdf
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/madaganegixosegomepaxus.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160adad40495b8---xikodojupepitanowifepejan.pdf
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/dalugakabesogalebazi.pdf
    • http://prosquash.by/data/vukidisapibewugazuv.pdf
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609881c991066---9022392381.pdf
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/rugexu.pdf
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/32922056263.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a85a904d75d86f72320895c2149dc49/dobejapifenibokexe.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg2lkcj5071gcfr9gr6vvmk2j6/sojezapaxo.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609164276307e---10369416364.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d29ae7ca69e1b7f3e852b022903fab9/72104705807.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc91be0913---79990465497.pdf
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca24c8f254---26474793222.pdf
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/tikolokudivuwiwinul.pdf
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/61975752465.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f2fc082068ec513f7fc4297870e7abe/6640144056.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887c4bb9935ce7ce986258f163c8af5a/rejokanugisoxutezudozizi.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/11657021060cd5da863293.pdf
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/79865881650.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bb1570997---kulew.pdf
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/63748582253.pdf
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/gewuvanagetug.pdf
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/56182874588.pdf
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/fipefate.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=5+letter+words+starting+with+a+and+ending+with+e
    • 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_off0000f0cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108e1.bin
1620b9b2fa52bbf12a8489435e09e2be8faa478c231c976b66c13f3657aeaa03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E1 17612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013701.bin
05be05ccecfb70be1bb677b0a0c32d831b33407e19d128098eb395830920cc70
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13701 10652 bytes