Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d092fff8351e532…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 723df257fc206f6383087dad9ea388f7 SHA-1: c31f3358c9ab367f5e0a588594b0318816dec156 SHA-256: 3d092fff8351e5320df5ed7a1c0f5b3350ecaf986735382244b887838589a855
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to distribute further malware or phishing content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users into downloading additional malicious files.

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tekla+structural+designer+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092afe2b2dfd---99629777237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/fezukorazovizikonunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab35d75c9488530f65b1c6561edbd9d/zilazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c6851c934---62006083637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/vizatisusoromifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b86833e4068a5a0e8f2a0eb0ae99896/lozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021072708085147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huntland.hu/upload/file/89546413112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/202de2d2739f5f0a0b372dc50abb3713/22306875133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceb33d6607c---45074744049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c096c190998---nekubugiveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/kagapafozojebabexuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkyangmei.com/uploadfile/file/2021082119072373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc94b94aa7d---xobogivomifipitekuteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/41914407462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/46436598025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannoorpally.com/uploads/file/51789322764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b33f577030f3d13015ae37ccf2bc4c/mazogena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8400d9d88e4bee2ebb73adcd2fd8d408/nikikalezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o05vmtpk6kukmj4bek8h1aj8k4/gamuninozopumigabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/xibotejarevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b834eb06fe---37643546490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/615843a066462d392047052061483ea5/kinikidewabivaputexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607523e1442fa---44051101089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/37592815738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c1c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1C6 16048 bytes
SHA-256: 57120131cd7c20967e7f2d16287929776232447d6737fc5a60ff97658a1501ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB59 10996 bytes
SHA-256: d1e3954b174a402bcaf7937f2ff5ca35abcf387a10f92c258632273e3907c922
font_02_sfnt_off000104ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1