Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b6a1b56fda46bf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 07:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bba392f25c1ff0d64018c3f174bdff95 SHA-1: 888713b1d68e8f8593a84fbf7f70eb698fcb515c SHA-256: 3b6a1b56fda46bf70f4f7063ff83055de6b891714a1f79bc9f6ccfaa19fe6e32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure victims into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822f4ca08eb---risumadoroxin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c390a9dc9---52602788303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dda8d120232c30a45702c6ec30a2bbc/16879438957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/lesuvunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967fade2c7f---vujovesitekodife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/54931311937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/90652661735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec9ggnh88u6k3ksiq6gdcarm5j/pikubuverapami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf0cd36f63b24210ff79e94e1bee51f/punozupufaseboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tc8u1e71o8mn0fat6qdhuiee0/zuvipuzama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070293a01fee---xogipufalevanubevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/sititot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/52584188739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/75494874058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/pofamunutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/metivutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/lerugiwozudobezaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130868a4b1543b3788803139930e1351/bijamepaverobubagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/97423581665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtidhpfi51qhvjkaq71d60ckk4/rodopovugujimunewanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/40875892140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/riwixawizofalewulasuzizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/97177300668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f63e35a3a---71482243957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/83803797828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+show+equation+on+graph+in+excelPDF 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_off0000eac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC3 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 32181b6fcb45f3ffa6639a6d813e19899e8099213ced6caceab9fe8a95d15ab5
font_01_sfnt_off000116f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F4 11080 bytes
SHA-256: c300eacb1dc6c07f092775d24f887e06f7080b7c5fa4499893be2e4197a52ebb
font_02_sfnt_off00013073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13073 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1