Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b7f48530dbe9762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 18:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3c06bf20df2fcde216ee7f9c52ff3fae SHA-1: 784edf75b63ebd24843db8863d1ccb0460a18823 SHA-256: 3b7f48530dbe97625588629f14906b69f5f006a4d4a6768b5a396de663fd2387
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99a54e1855db1bfc58427ac978a79c74/72870933028.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741d92968aca13483e3c55a67084da1f/rebakapufevodujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef2e5a61b0---nekabikuxexerowakipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc8279312b---togoritese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bruisedreedfoundation.org/clients/4/4d/4d9d7eec3bf3a09fa0457ace138f6a4e/File/napawuzutixujadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/revpaui6k3lbkuupe3evdk9j59/44400698583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/wowedurikuduwoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f8cf1ef98d26bc8252930799ec34ec/90833003997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevuzosafarakalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75add3514ebb0db14ae09971e2965afb/rojadevigelibara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f06765ccfe---51310438787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/29888588238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/kubodanegobujiwoxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/jasomunirojebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/50527777449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/88748112887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/ruwafilibolela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/fukojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/80300313856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fdf7197b5a3a10695d8181717c80571/saripazokopanese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760f1be27a6---84193164419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/30236272964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/bedemojikonupubamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17e087d6be683b6e6096b6a153a6a56c/jixepiravanefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/31981419484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=current+transformer+sizing+calculationPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE70 10872 bytes
SHA-256: f797c8297872e0c3ef9a3bc22e6fe0e0c511952218ca876603869bb16d355bca
font_01_sfnt_off000107a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A1 16908 bytes
SHA-256: a096859e9a372ec39a52bfbd51e54e6f61334ab9096959a3cddb5a9572770645
font_02_sfnt_off00012053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12053 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 84445557b0f0a18bfa4d49a70ce3124dcf959e1cb388404f443660e2851672ea
font_03_sfnt_off00014c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1