Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bbf6058ec6f40ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 963e0e44d41df196de8061a6a6792911 SHA-1: 481b3902eb02d000cf08738ab8f9b76c286db2d2 SHA-256: 3bbf6058ec6f40caba4990bc332dd39633c8b49cad4ca2f5922e46f56a807150
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in one URL further support the link farm and potential phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/72235886501.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://falls67.com/clients/50406/File/9894629685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mc0kmm7dmom2cgq23iplmd7kb1/55118639074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/vumewirepozejiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c79fee9bd2---40140348402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/79847668172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/gematudinagogisepimusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73267e441b---37069158602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77e91c0547---28309436938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dff54396759---jokuzifumadowefakurigibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c594796cf0---67753624522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/25435110675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/wemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/46348679048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3e23bcb465689ad88a2e61c15e85274/puwesimivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/168pgqqvu16blujpnq8gnjc720/pupuxoxuloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/16640585679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgjbreunion.com/clients/6/69/6950e03db8b1ea894755b369f0a03c31/File/sugufupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-10/20210510113105634652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e940ad0b8d031c27774f974863225a49/20626764043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/laziworodotaketofewowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d311155ba---93832829515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/30414581015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=davis+drug+guide+furosemide+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_off0000cb75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e38c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38C 10760 bytes
SHA-256: cbe55b527e1191045a8fc6b0b4b7f39a0329d80fe8de92df759bf4c4423034fc
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC1C 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 1bd5bedfa9da0eaa3e50f43a1db89e8fbe81cdc524b1523da5aa61e9b34e609b