Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b6c529103058274…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ab9e0981e425e2498b44db150b328c6f SHA-1: e47acaac656c4861110fec51e726b7c09d9de371 SHA-256: 3b6c52910305827482d81a97712d0ad1a64a024d560dc82397c03097b5dc54f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that this document is intended to trick users into downloading a malicious payload. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5ccb58ecc---19785363351.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3c65e99648176f8e46a0db3a42fe7c/suwagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d92a6c6ad---pajerikudowolimemubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3674e36ad0---91383265451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvmkrj9gktia6uhd3vi8qvdub8/42997830786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/17863210102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99d46f28cf---21310286084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c9ca64416---66599299991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/wimoval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvej40u98atfn332schqk25npf/koludozebaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e16a17c973467b77fd498e8818d218/fadelado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ck594uejc9mo05rgtv8fg3562/25522779161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25i3otbvthobt2g7o6rv2qbvar/70365259647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lk2v70gsgdqmmro26fb7j6rjm4/nojojavigakisevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/93962500469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/xatovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e881f0f4881e8e7a52de766842d408c6/ribedivofavenetikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f1a5b0034bb85243565f89fc983e97/titelefotesomoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41772d5b57---24476847330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q766behnqsr61a0jt9beoe5669/99755895610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtldt83nnurhg5260phctjrjl7/zisevomavafegezubukubivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tet+exam+old+question+papersPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/rosidabafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e18f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18F 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEB 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 0d13712ce0197b7c3e4b1da2affaa75c2ac494c5799088d9433abb1395f67d03
font_03_sfnt_off000127be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BE 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 84f23d9a48fb3f80bd038f0fe1816485ce629afb3dc719d2593dabf24bec129b