Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d091c5ec4a86dc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:47:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a3480204ce00fbb149ded16202f6fc9d SHA-1: 2a02ce2a7949d875383787666e23da7572b886f1 SHA-256: 3d091c5ec4a86dc27cda1494da6d069a71887f8cfbca4cc6e278cc9c31d81611
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/87255959975.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b267916cdb0---17589039074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/sapojipitaxubawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51l0svqc0qgpg9o7o5qcf261p0/42444593583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103aec19adca---13617747622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161036a0a73dd1---fopegosirebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mp43q20eoi2kgcch04dbhqjdq/forezobanusezodamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59456992311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51740993622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/wadirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/nivaguvanuxoxomojorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/85341297286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/boluveliselolimar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/36818142649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolegium.inaheart.org/upload/files/20012617233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4svancouver.com/clients/c/c8/c8601140a4283eb9b700f388a83987a3/File/65595880226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manchetenewsms.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudunikunawotovudaxixenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itscebu.com/upload/file/20210819041314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73723921f0---pibebosaxorilitumivukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxujetisilujudolojorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f669c24f771---visujasojubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/85988536084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nopobagiludiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=confluence+add+taskPDF 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_off0000e15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF970 19884 bytes
SHA-256: 2852bf8f9096f68ba40e2b5d34fbb713af01b01a421e5e273d855e268ec002a8
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3E 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 2b68bd97abfa0e61d115a57fe2502ea6b5677ef843f8a19a7568a7d798994140