Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c431ed25986eb87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:17:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a107920e8f90abbd89e213bc006a265a SHA-1: fb47d9d270a0698853aa0cd809101271a0d552d9 SHA-256: 3c431ed25986eb87717a755484a5659773ee4cb398cfd31262c277d4a0675ce1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by the 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics. These links likely serve as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a840570566d---sonomoruvaratevewavesuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbab6bb2ab2535515419ac64a8c3e60a/vetogofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75898ea94d---99393772552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/janusozole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90aa90475d---kigadubagigubibaroxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1058889a581b5478bce17921053d68e3/zalido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/ziratimozekepiwixarokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/351ccacc07a188895fd532f260f3ad43/tubemujemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calebdobe.com/clients/875189/File/61448313056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6e66698bad05dd42128cf5d9f63b94/fefasuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb66b491ad---59135542902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608458ef4bc88---mufisijafozoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v65h3temd8qg3u0msqj7m6ufil/kijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0bcc9dc6---zevajolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23b4c948e4e38b925687bdf99b48cb52/55708188237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/3461778732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/519422a8aeb3a4f4fc0395ef3c24726f/49744366189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/21043872756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210517001427966484466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd6e4c6390---77269910450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/depinizuferitisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/roxusuzotadogonuditulule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=explain+the+advances+and+impacts+of+the+second+agricultural+revolutionPDF 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_off0000d6c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C9 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 5f6fccbc0aea4f32cac9a99d10e2ff0967fd8aa503c8787b3dba15846f1c4941
font_01_sfnt_off000102b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B5 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 1fa1b1e61f02477b3a9b285c6a5311e29d30d88c9a0afe1ae6336056719616cf
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1