Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b781392a67e38aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:57:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 91e3ce3bb3a819ab821c14feb795520b SHA-1: 4c040eb565cc3faae0653174d25ffce4925fd97c SHA-256: 3b781392a67e38aa4bd7317160aa4a42f55f76d2a94e7403f17fedcd9fa0caa9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of embedded URLs and a 'download button' heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=proof+of+employment+sample PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93c4f6a91e---93751699779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929acaddcb8---92709579569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/56008382966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/40584772119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/fagutajufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/wivoloritejakumetazuzafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/80251763337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/24962072429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc935ba06d78323f24b93e2e9cce5f51/xoxomararejiforaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a605d0b45eb---88560626634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/17746352943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/29878817957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/dutakiraroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/powetewawazifirazudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39f321f545ed17821796b97b2af3ac99/879093612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea28c40bb7a77ac16c71b0e46392989/vinofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d84e5888f---16155082054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/24728987352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7806b1c59cdd7950801ac3cdb05e4256/gutebatesepuwilumikopimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f21b641281e49f508af48db00feec9b/15015658503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e02d332d01---vepatisodabomasazemigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb830dc6121280b0b5b367a5436c6cc7/ladakifuxuxevunixusiruxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jbko6g0h7hd1qc685gq42se95/85224002673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnorg1i3erssobbjr8gfobfbf0/58235122321.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E9 10540 bytes
SHA-256: c4d787f02bc8adb0a5b84a70949b6b44ad1438494ba4f0310fdcea9d1f819f0d
font_01_sfnt_off00011104.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11104 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12916 16724 bytes
SHA-256: f9cc070d1cec97a81dbd3ff7795d4ed6163ec4233a31e4e09c6c5b8b67178b59