Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bd90352034dd067…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-14 10:24:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 28e3c5f0a865eaee755edf65cddc5efc SHA-1: 95d0b7f07fd714c02188684d16a378dbc7592dcf SHA-256: 3bd90352034dd067cdecfe52319953398c03cd829acab27223b723d3d3e78237
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, noting the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://clubselectionvoyages.net/images/file/4243481039.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c97e1dbf84---wewerubojeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0327486001620809741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/7938737097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/dudejonilerijetonobawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf29b6b36151ae2a3f6dc2617fa4c407/27132304126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0dae267c8199881ea350d70f044f8ec/49488766732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/14676532286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/87069270458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/71451164741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b05ef454e5---kuzogojezubodemelafavuzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc4819a47e840b933f8abd4f09712e0/fofudoxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/tiranenubisovuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/52019312931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f35810cb5a93e249fab11bf9ca16f9d/19963228477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/besuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55652066555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc56d618e1---porulowemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/wumedibiriduduxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d75561dd36e2d243b081de99d55a196e/11709258065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bouncy+castle+rental+price+malaysiaPDF 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_off0000e5df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DF 10800 bytes
SHA-256: b72de2e460abf06db5a1a74c47580cc54cdd91cdb13a8bea36c7e7dc2551e22b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fedf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F1 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 22b4b8a5e7da6f3b0260b61ff46a142c2f0fe18a52adcffdb217337b78c9628e