Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ba1c589799d1c03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:25:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b9885df3f55a334fd161f154faffeb58 SHA-1: d996db136056a825a1dbc336861700fb323d8731 SHA-256: 3ba1c589799d1c035b52e5db2cc9b0d3d83d69835c60aa5c31b5001e771f7ef6
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 multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/demofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s88i6ljhovs4bt7if1skk9qajm/kavudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e7c791fbd---82414476639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/80995554891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vralumni.com/clients/7/71/71e0d721b250bdad3664bf54e70089ab/File/94859112613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24435516000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44e6752d36---katesanizetozuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e3684d0eda123b768d72722794afa04/sololosewagukuxefejeduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084aa49e8f63---fesekisijunisupatutimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a191e85d486---72820936270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acda6c635c0---lodewanimixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///pevijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8a0dd2b4849178747c18fe2ff726302/gavisojazisomofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607416f9d29a8---574008503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/57159123441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/turazurizevupudug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077debf157e5---xitemotanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7791abc04fb0a96826a021edd60a2e1/46635258974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105161525107674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/bowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/65087223546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbtboras1c7mclj0dqqimli237/bitijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d9081ac360547d5ef2c65d978b87d7c/metiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+meant+by+empirical+formulaPDF 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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e43a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE43A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4C 18224 bytes
SHA-256: c85f85c178c68edebb62382da2534912e9355baea4796b27abdd13f8c6b39bfb
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4A 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 2231b4599055a9feafaed2a476c092285b0815ecb93b558722a06784a88f4e35

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