Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b228e398d282dcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:58:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e68db4648fd6ee8fa9db7e04dce06f06 SHA-1: 036ee7b04c5d0b7ec12a9bf79a9cd31022317365 SHA-256: 3b228e398d282dcf0c8c993288cbd30ae60a9505b79e088f535ebc37ccad6964
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b066g2r204ikecqjjn8heproh9/56427268764.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607683c921824---newobarixoxokano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc3a12d55a---xofobuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3a4a02adb---73236051202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/kisovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/49381086375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084db013f3d9---zidibosutipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071043b3a914---gilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d576a0c2b---roboxigabazijivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e031d203cd45e1e9c3abd87edfca26/72998503530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5679cca60---66890219533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9f255c67c---dabesarumizenivinukeraker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/59967941291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d02630d35eaee3313b07351afe5a17/gakasipajorozama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825216f1ba0---87261893290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea7c3a2f77---15068592998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3ca9bb427---25073247269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ddeb6cb7dc2d30cd32cbf29da1b8ca3/paxejefofamikevezojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/75368842108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/96252850088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/soxikeledije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandientuchinhhang.com/upload/files/43302183593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=nf+real+music+album+downloadPDF 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_off0000e65a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65A 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 341bc61d7e40a52e13e5468914d414754e7ee74f1a18b03b3207a02810de3406
font_01_sfnt_off0001147f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147F 10844 bytes
SHA-256: b9914c03a84d0333682b7b4b190577130123bed28f38050995cd0483af8cd756
font_02_sfnt_off00012d8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1