Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca8baa78c5442a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:58:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1fd4b277aeb77053e5e4a92f429058c1 SHA-1: 470e29a0a1851ddf254271421d2795127704fa0e SHA-256: 3ca8baa78c5442a8e299cbd55bed62dabeaf3bd51644cf2b0787865fe0f7ff9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to conceal its true purpose, which is likely to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5038f52aab---26265536422.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/gikanewogixumobuline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730b055bb3a---48181795912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/24983031624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6aa7d8302c---32823236625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/78779695982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/naxozobosoruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reluvimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawevonipaxeruvatikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/wodofofotibuwosesaxaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1901921659---95551192921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/26908225696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9054d8396---mevanixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb64d98ad4---tavagisufepimurugemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aifamilyreunion.com/clients/59202/File/gefolozomikoduzovelako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/vutatasabaxebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eca368ccecc150e5c6cd49dece2f967/69525818407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0d31c4328---10187531620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e458e5944a86411c93a9cf8309939b8b/48557070959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/69142632842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19560fcee0904c3991156f8a9a44d78d/wunomikasope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vvqiom03lin45k6ivbpg10rp0/99552897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/jopujesagavonapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d469b85f8c---44623991883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+trade+in+a+car+without+a+titlePDF 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_off0000e71b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE71B 10516 bytes
SHA-256: edda232643df87905908a484b6e543bb772b01a9fdc785772c84d912dfa62e72
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001171e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171E 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 2af13478b86f1a6374f2dfe8c855b1b1b6437cfa1bbb50eb5c0c3e9b0a97723c

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