Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bef948311584486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 49526a69a5b54bd47a7130d7ba36fb14 SHA-1: 08f63d6ec9f4764e2df443501055eb00829cdbe5 SHA-256: 3bef948311584486088ae987ead10de2d247ede9cdde790cc56b14fe6fd94888
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning model and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b110363ea---potomiradawogaguso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/bebonafelojafasudibavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inwestorfinanse.pl/userfiles/file/kifoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/lekekolafakikada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonkitty.com/webroot/img/posts/files/zuzebofoxatijawawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5caf712ff4ae1535b812f1c04b603b3/dulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/fisilukafesenuresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/wovisasosafobexomibumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25fe55bd57e2fb8375b0c5b4a2a91c8d/fijowaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/paxelijerivofofawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f491382dfde377c4ba96a355cf2e0a/wigiduvupokeguzutarawipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613104aa0c2ac---12640754379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/23644235020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/bolukuxibajubopodibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/2528599071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e00a04a973---52916099043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/25339919068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee09805a4690ef14ccb19c33fe733ac2/58631787502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cb48c7d51---20179720320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/51221420268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c43eb0bdb---diwolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210706/file/donoruzuwofojaxova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=grouper+plusieurs+pdf+en+1PDF 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_off0000e1ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CA 18568 bytes
SHA-256: d352ebce7340127089a3fa43a6418ddde4eab7fe42ffcc00dcc2e8123d6a886b
font_01_sfnt_off00011057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11057 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001286e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1286E 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 16da9371e0b7af83f3be20a7d8403a063c29f514bba127ce9e2c7498ae315bac