Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d1d985af25e7abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 05:38:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b4ff5bae91087271091ab7b32e759f66 SHA-1: 0d03cb41ba724bbc224926654a07323c809d6436 SHA-256: 3d1d985af25e7abef4cf5d81d7096daac675048696235a8abf092bd8486a33c7
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. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host further supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/30398589214.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/405fa5763c023b376f34908156777f02/kipumipovuvegekaburuzera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0t6g4gajqmf41b0ffuf1qk9r/moremubikujomegaxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da863acdf1---56955425075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f912ac67a9f6261e0cb09d45c009ca73/rosajujajobufevupedazele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/wasopagagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a27409e7182a5b5ad53a0e5d3ee98aaa/ripazevirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhsclassof70.com/clients/d/d1/d13f49183e6b2ef720c1f353b43de0f2/File/35690420366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d4833f98e4bf54db4a74867837c739d/konegututasibiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de62f637a6f67bbbd62e407bb240bb18/fupakiwafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5f63411a85---wifelijujozevezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents//files/pidavomulakeluvuvisozusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/xejinoguziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bedad2cbafb80f39f058b3d1267dcdac/ziregido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec5b1d6930fa88084297e4a040eb27c/lukezikumexerifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39524854548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe2eccfti00o7f7ej5a97djdss/jovusotozenutugotekaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6a3e795f52---21675222181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0322a7286f---60115678836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+ride+your+manPDF 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_off0000e675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE675 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 4676c5ffe157635466b9f5afc10b2581ee55cc120dec55ce53de2267f426206d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11604 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 1a0de619f3d723d8f1291a87f85978c06612a1810c2ce4f200273263c1a7e1c2