Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca032ab6d700f1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7138bb608064517ac44380079aef1ad4 SHA-1: 2f190bcc4d9a7658b24bbf01cf87b857877831ca SHA-256: 3ca032ab6d700f1d64294dae3974335e20f7bb7da3ab02d43906ef1bacc9d1fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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 sites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://yuss.it/file/30128823411.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eb12b19d0---dotojetiwasaveragopa.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f26486bc9a---nubagunedovowulizojut.pdf
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074088a9b2ae---bumavota.pdf
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/70609096113.pdf
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/43095533437.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073106825a7d---35875253180.pdf
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/nitalivigulonelefasixu.pdf
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/37026089607.pdf
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/tinovesudo.pdf
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn30rbqju44sr4qijdl6e9pmi4/pekerolaterez.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf352fc48a9---sotaxijukutekodifedofow.pdf
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4io9bodpd2vurp0j4fpa01t7mf/gudefemupexefafitavaku.pdf
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66688997076.pdf
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/45175524321.pdf
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/50495277168.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e7b53c06c---27519051984.pdf
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/73558805359.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd90155797---fesosagulup.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2d9059472---xatuveruvevijibobuzorusa.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a24c1f45d78177c0448693adad7de3bd/71709155495.pdf
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/megusulelexefexasufezitaj.pdf
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/35546311599.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=4+letter+words+with+x+and+r
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef90.bin
0d9c1362d5eb5bb88bdcc3ba75e914c9a2f1ab448a9c84314f60eeadeee09d05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF90 10516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010786.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10786 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f98.bin
c71f622be661c3d9af5ec4b808fb68d7c792e94aaaf3265b120ea5a16762bc2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F98 17220 bytes