Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d1fd6ce3693c194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:18:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b44026da69586cbc0ea1e6858307eded SHA-1: fc3ade01869aea7ff3bfea6186f42c16f1e0656c SHA-256: 3d1fd6ce3693c194b3425220b5c72a338bcc8316c4e27b082cd864457eac9f6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, identified by heuristics as a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/84704058076.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5e8h5cs3ar5uoi9k28rjg1la2/zafafamozuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094063d9c9ed---38452234274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ccd85c011---17287402840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965679dabca---75462000083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/48746697996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c4d4a45d79a8d857d644d1064aa8f6/83151554320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/gukowiwuditedafebofodefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/76359373302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hohegffg7mo2pn2288ulosag77/33567225939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamhanoi247.com/upload/files/96568121848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff585271fb---moradid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/93620591126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://administratieindex.nl/images/uploads/vekofefisujejajuzepaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/rogujilitagadivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d4dbb60032edebb481bcd08d0adf49/nerovepepowuxopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/6918960669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joltiy.ru/uploads/files/90734689035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/sopazekovopavodogetixuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a706f28b0f---60513602252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/zaraneperikunigesuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4f88diveb8kd2ocabd0on3nqv/mutomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43473d61411d628f571b099d8249a4a2/romavonaxopozukavebumidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=consultancy+company+profile+pdfPDF 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_off0000df0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0C 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 16deb8a014b2eab54812f116b384ef69f0da17af38d902845a33baf9dadefd77
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110CB 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 75110b062807997a48255df56e29940e8c1b51cbbe35a28e89cba80a47574107