Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b842aad8c1a3b48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:18:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 41c7f4442e35604f1bbcefb42abbe1f8 SHA-1: 70479affea5fd4ce575712ea213bc4bd1c35568e SHA-256: 3b842aad8c1a3b484b2525f3c6859bc76b78f9edd2034658c9557a12871473c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, which in turn host other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5eb58ef851af7dbac1bf76d4a536429/8898862829.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/liribozuzemosapesigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/59366368028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/poselufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/6535692376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086389ca1521---28574699329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783ccf35882---kotoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j33i0c2f1tn86nv6lvhvp4mph2/ravatorofiboxinokogebone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080954348b8b---70046087101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091af3f53361---jesagimusebopanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/siqg7husg93eckgvkd32ponc51/12926903986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e5cd826d8---tutuzufodoboxumixomugora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vokowude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c45656251---ritijato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsjhaf4pr5f0g12dtq28sf0ij2/gedelapapaliwariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c181278ed176e4e5148c1867f2aa4072/pipedukigobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7121b166f84b7b11f6cd4003772cc205/39561447147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d4403553e4d37f3afc11742c25c587/nexazomitixiwuzipobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65ia0jq4mmiuseudg8v1bo1897/kikugemutolerotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67c6c187fa---61461379488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa49f6fc510eb6c24aaad12678ed6ba4/bugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6fopu8rb54o8e6l840ttvrlke/pabote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/80759894769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2202b44afb3c3f3bf285dd24253c63e0/sudebalitagukegesuraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=which+vaccines+contain+thimerosalPDF 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_off000111f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F1 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 2a79625b5c3f8746fe6693e9a8a15ef959bf72cea6e732d24d01eb361f4fe2d4
font_01_sfnt_off00013f6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F6F 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 96ff4a7a165009de1e43018de4092e8ff7ba2743a4c32a83c035e2a9bcfdef0d
font_02_sfnt_off0001575e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1575E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1