Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d1b339e4f0d27b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-05-16 11:28:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 3c0a1aeba50f59902076e5b6f2c0fa25 SHA-1: cb13d2c752478788c7b08e9a9dd3c1ec90bad26e SHA-256: 3d1b339e4f0d27b90cf938957c453f47d24cd9ae563d849d5ad322609360478e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c498b14bf69bac60f31d11548f08484c/zepozobowubo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0ec57a6ed---71734933692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b992bc8d6---vadixidakupidukerumodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/micoao6f8a35qhniioht803hq3/gatazuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/wepawipozuremoxeridaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/82696760205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ecf94fb70---fikewadudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609486e183602---18770473335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ltobq5eu2qn7980020kl9uku6/visavedoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00f3e9af329c83c3c687c552619ef236/wesosizifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/78484548364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/xakafitabigikife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/83534989139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6e7a36cb4---39606231110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a25b4d114f---75043112840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00415f038c6e7a0ebee7987d92f76260/59562638332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=application+form+for+college+admission+2019PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001018e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018E 5948 bytes
SHA-256: 3e76dad96fbfefe3ca888ba3b8648b67f2f7210df1756493b22df035ef54b972
font_01_sfnt_off000115bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BF 10620 bytes
SHA-256: c84b46cfaf6f8fe3057c43129fccd45bf01d607ea48ac0039a340c188831d506