Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ba152038804230c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 09a22fce17038afd762ed06434b0cbc3 SHA-1: 038a61f8ad3724ebd36daf0252b93bb80d73be0a SHA-256: 3ba152038804230cc9941ec45eb54f4741f8447ab1a9575d850ee0bdf1a33003
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites. This suggests a multi-stage attack, likely intended to deliver phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/gemozuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4vv3tt6c5gt86gp058mnf2f32/51560376736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed784817ee8f5cff850074e50fcf792/sejumemivifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcevent.com/clients/871459/File/332293929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kevanuxelonigomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4db76008a3---bulujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a985fc8469f---rijoredulepimotakosumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9699242a7---54157462015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfd4c388f6a5ccebcb4b787cc25cdd8e/23781469354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42fdbc9e9bf5767e1f0c68e3df95a609/44955371525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/16382735937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/041003691c8f9ee0a3762350f10dcbfa/rifazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5681726a2f---finasumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f7506c260---23533629429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/35803990348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/54700508673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/8092356860d3cca65351d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eab260d307---funonimivodukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/7972099392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/nisarekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/65773081696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kino.ru/sadm_files/kutaxebutajovataguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608781f408e1d---90716647331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b826515ef---jozobeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=violent+verses+in+the+new+testamentPDF 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_off00010c84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12496 16744 bytes
SHA-256: bdeddc68f32e5643f3e2e37b8c9ccf3845f86cb96caeb22c340bf5e0fd0e81f9
font_02_sfnt_off00015053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15053 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 63832e180974120b51e41b2b8740c3c0a1fc537fc3929a8f0228c99e74c9383e