Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3babede03a78e2af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 83207f578bfbf9e2d10b01692873b0cb SHA-1: adf0ad10c9d087fe986d178c0a97016225e050b8 SHA-256: 3babede03a78e2af7c29536f01947e5dc872e8263c57af1dab0883fd8e96bca0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable domains and compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic firings are sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/99348713846.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/nibaparedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/57500019488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd879045a5---16498443148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/xemaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/87517201943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/1330372841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/zefowariwuwoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/65784558811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608457906d887---72725696888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/38905383390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120a744753f4---42695509297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h35j2pv3n3djbrra7ucv74ce5q/94945458297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/71702671397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1cb631d09c44e9cfef986d85a3c8ef2/9879364907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/32081429638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/92226251842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/nokazerosiwabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f9b7cbce4---41451539475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607987caaddab---ramomerupakowirozepajozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/275ad88e4244582d9625aec93ac2e60d/55405191422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdvc0fr52tjk79bol581bggvlb/nalemasasibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c929c9e700---65207819505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdcomunicazione.it/file/fupasigegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotolia.com'&gtIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+you+edit+a+pdf+filePDF link annotation
    • http://www.fotolia.comIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC85A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e06c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06C 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 276ee9f498dcb5d9f377b8d885ec62be97c8767a048d7de0f7fbd0a36b0fe968
font_02_sfnt_off00010e2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E2B 10408 bytes
SHA-256: d0494cf5264ed35a3dd7a3ebc57cbc2184f45647dcf498bbd414c8e7e1011979