Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d0a2dd17e31c45b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:13:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6f5431ef1d3c6670143b928a61cbd729 SHA-1: e428d2f248cca158faec860c7f9395deddd96bd5 SHA-256: 3d0a2dd17e31c45bc75c6c8e21453aa80a5ba954e535435975b72701b070a6b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9786

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=equation+of+newton%27s+law+of+cooling PDF link annotation
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/771sat5kctdu4b5clnvlvmhs2v/fabetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/75943484793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/81431487251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc3193ac0f1d40e0df854df56eade0d/xisadexowaguzurekapudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d981db775c---88154492985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210609090235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080053f42ffa---55938241643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ead6ce69bc37810d341ba81eb9770e7/duvegowuxevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rd7ie3cdlu65mk2q38c8bab94o/rasiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/wudivitaniwerowomipono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c740863d2---27232132951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfd3fb42b6---bikojabogugisonugusotawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb8e837825---49239083697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c533adda669---ropamezomemamolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32bba2c35b---xerosasimowuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a71846fe7---70191926010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gv9eb2s85atbmqocr3futafeg6/kefitebemisorujakunutezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5e81ec06c6466f84ecb29cdc8aec03b/degoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/16562743393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/wapekosikixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a615d494b306764bf5b5b2e03b6c3a/71312857573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c8559b4ae5939cb8a5df42dd8cf8548/vugoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/28593072716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk12e6rr0epivqu4nkphc3pfa4/6568041657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/wulimamekufuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17a0a0d5783b6c2359ec84663ccefd12/86742429426.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC37 10760 bytes
SHA-256: da90dffdb7b1754891e62967a6717d95a35f6c64e59f4cb0db092fefe0fc5652
font_01_sfnt_off000104e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E8 20552 bytes
SHA-256: fac63dc7eac8359a3d2d9a4552fd6e05f25a1999037e7a73b7033d0f2b96b844
font_02_sfnt_off00013a1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001522c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1522C 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c