Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b05b374ea3862da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:55:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1b42aeec8168b6add876ef500a6cd3eb SHA-1: abefdf3ca8b1792a154cd133205083dfb91a5797 SHA-256: 3b05b374ea3862da03641b516320726c377d361c74f1a9d249a2e5a254cbe897
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised sites suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://sunridgecorp.com/uploads/files/202108241223269631.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/gumikugazagedegiwixilixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/kalimuwuvatotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/nukaravifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineexpert.in/userfiles/file/88385689942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c47ac4e92---vesajutemofuzaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ecd691f0fd---21624002126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acb44848fa8ea05ea3b575dee84ee9df/jagigiporebilefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52611c38e65fb11e039609e4cdeece83/64836775687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/53092744908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents//files/tekugowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapp.fr/medias/files/birelujasakarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/pirugilotujosunoxopisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journalofcritique.com/ckdosyalari/upload/files/finumagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826d27bb527---53263699863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/gogebezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/64755962965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a0f4fe3f1b3fb573a39a54c6a63e212/vozogowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f67e90cb74---91547214376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b36546ba3a4a188b4c9fd4e41a5749/72666058016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2db34c809---3685485757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=wondershare+converter+pdf+to+word+freePDF 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_off0000c1a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1A8 10724 bytes
SHA-256: d3cf820a8410d5a6eaef856b81404133b09e4eea9fbf5b21b62d7f8d62acfebf
font_01_sfnt_off0000da52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA52 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 23379827b3fae7f9ed747844c9f74518a53947f298d7cf7c384d36339570fdcc
font_02_sfnt_off00010594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10594 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1