Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d1f6a5632447635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:06:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4133cc55564eff06ab8ba767a3df9a6e SHA-1: 0ab75eac10a8202ab05ca70b24c4ba9d3be017e3 SHA-256: 3d1f6a563244763506a9b8556019724032d96ea9eb07b808f69f872faeab73e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious files. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further indicates a malicious intent to obscure the true origin of the content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1765baf500---lukazilekoko.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b774b95339f---jazebomimuroxages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/xileduver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/gezajewaxupepuzuromaroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab112344b5f---nesejasowozijudubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelepisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/ruvadufevosiwuvujutajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc53fefc3c---73372841271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863ff3371e9---83270334614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/momikokujunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/fefunukanakexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://club-sports.net/uploads/products/files/57355367262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1703427ce0e452a7afe45a1564e3102e/20011176763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/20651421527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/3010362667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/67904909734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed629e3435f---zividitoxakafukena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03daibj9j3r40jlfqlkbkgoqhh/vuwaxuwizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3123d6273a05e510c0a78bf68b772a7/fakodinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3692c4eb08---sarisubukalolizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/81253194877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/xonofizomeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/30656118430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727c86897e8---70098871448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=download+foxit+phantompdf+portablePDF 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_off0000d5ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5EE 17328 bytes
SHA-256: df5ebf012d33d3604b3b76786726c1a8ae9dc2de10750ca88ad81880418ab4d7
font_01_sfnt_off000102b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACB 10924 bytes
SHA-256: a6bd82a8f7f9e27b4853f1008827e92141899a3b374541f6c70542f44ad5d556