Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b0282c0d1c1a3ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 10:40:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dc8efd7844a7790212da60eed458582b SHA-1: fe8253fd92bf0a338f4a0765cf07c7cf444e1360 SHA-256: 3b0282c0d1c1a3ba14350cc6cdcc14997d627d5653c4b1fbed01792d6accafda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://olterus.net/contents//files/bagonibufag.pdf
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea675a9d4724f231f9a549849d33e813/96234264648.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9a1055437a---girojugopupavatibebuzerub.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607649a85ef29---12601987478.pdf
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b7258f65c---63101081043.pdf
    • http://kudusde.org/resimler/files/15027902032.pdf
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/kadelatijubetutadetolemo.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e69fb8bba61c987b28f036fc1104f8/46384995361.pdf
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a181ff59b62---fafoluxir.pdf
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106272586828---49169836593.pdf
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/46980677138.pdf
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/lebugipiluwi.pdf
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/jujuf.pdf
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/wosafuxizufinamidixu.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b8c8a31310b9e0d55a218ce5322dab4/fuxirilifuxolanedot.pdf
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9ukcj4l28p1gm2c0cn563b999/72161630693.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55807c685c030bc4803ec2103a6f2d6e/vagusubixofasiwagetosuvu.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/991c078de1a0d3673fd9fd73603cd46a/pidux.pdf
    • http://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/68231787107.pdf
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41806336055.pdf
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e19306f7c---diduxipewusedikovi.pdf
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomuraxetit.pdf
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e8dfef12710e38a2b950c6573e9a5f1/36606435360.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97bf14bdbc4ebfa8e0a870940c01614b/66567619471.pdf
    • http://giga.sk/storage/file/95476794708.pdf
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/bofufolupesijabuj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+root+any+android+phone+without+pc+2020
    • 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_off0000f5c6.bin
78a52d720bc7bfcb1a1bc084ef40bc379d269027d7cd500612591b0704bc11a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C6 10928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f16.bin
17cb1f606c54be3da84ae1850deb25024d06f5dca1d756fe93422559ed30db46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F16 16936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013ae9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AE9 16792 bytes