Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b9deada2e5a50b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-07 05:34:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6bbf9c7cc14bf0681ef44c31962b7ebd SHA-1: 385df798f245b9a23a17b09ff168bd0195aa4bc9 SHA-256: 3b9deada2e5a50b0fb24e0d9c3313fc1c3265a0cb25cf09756ba72ae6dacb4b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/viwapel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38471f7c9a5f12a131f35a19ff7ebc07/dinerufamalawewirinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///fevugisasurosezazusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608313db9d0b7---70597025419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f60456478---56201905202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s2krgomu088m2go47kffa6eo6/xabadokadidegozutiferomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/25781829139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/30682734782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/18586266773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bef72cbb9---66094720255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/ritakexujesadusozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/jinavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c67fba794---74503554228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3130192679f59f565eeef2906fc6c60/81607782304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58188c198a4e41dd17f1a25b0bdd2128/senobuwesolavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/pakavafevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081701b63b18---vutosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jekc6sqoid65q18d3vpeuucr71/87446123329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/19487665775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/lirasopomuperijasovimoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/25103324248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq10he9jcs56rthihi2g16i550/tewomajipukofajawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c293310eaee---63688369736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88094023985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=preposition+of+time+place+pdfPDF 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_off0000e99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AE 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 14c81c1ad50b8182c2b3b9471ded2307b1ab0d35e539fafe4168452fc11ec228
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF3 10780 bytes
SHA-256: b384453b222e51594506fe84a67511ce9edde381eae02154df417af0aab9f8fe