Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bf52b6ba94e6a10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e40c7389f4816dfb910b7ee99f03ba36 SHA-1: d81cd231d69e4415e34c270e0bd25cc28b47ac9d SHA-256: 3bf52b6ba94e6a10a4bb2d18779eaac52b94962b3c4609008c115bd5d50e2147
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/lidaxifijosafig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/38985622118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/88815235882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab7667fbe03f494ee75eb5941225653d/nolutotazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e9d43c5a3f62daeb4da61d2723a468/fumaxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abb5107f92---vuniwofenomopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a249e871798---9179897282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1j2uf82i3g0r9ktghlkn265kak/14306805519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1224699ad6ac227069f928415fa56d8/10538276313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780eb028e13---gesojovarajotefexolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/20618469646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/49019358286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b360343d42---6748878698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh2pgm486basrn8tl2lb89gj8u/75531646905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606cbb17dcaff---jipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c84e0f4a2b8670caee75dd4f0530d0f/fegisajosoluwotatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213936f96314149b5aced35bae20dd51/pidirivurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akssert.com/userfiles/files/dafedejamelubulelepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091006851a24---24692769948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69682234886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazelletr.com/userfiles/files/54165606783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed5bfcddd3---6233522354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6060c07fa5---xizuteviruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d9b7d053c---15055223208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=a+bug%27s+life+bloopersPDF 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_off0000f2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E8 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 407b4941cd10b6e1c9339d8a489e75438ab4a6e5998a5ab320d9bea8d6e53fd5
font_01_sfnt_off0001227c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227C 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 350052edfc9f218a7b766e9551eb450b765fc03ded405273f5dc5c6f6d247d06
font_02_sfnt_off00013a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1