Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d3061d155d51e5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

146.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 19:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bbceb0e96a5185a35216cd9b201fa694 SHA-1: 45ee3900112cf6c92e3a716fc6e495b26198a7cb SHA-256: 3d3061d155d51e5a6f09d667e11f477c37311d6d51694761c49c16cf69a5ec96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage distribution or phishing scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5383225c7---poweposikosadaverubik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aac7f3c293---82778802763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fruafi7mj7f40ghmluic4h3ubc/misidenapesufudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d2827edd7---2843094801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4feeb9a9fb8bfe5212a96acc8a6c20f/jijisala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/24146447079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a07f5de9b7939c9afcc7e360288bad52/69612531486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t513co5m6se23v9s1c837b67b5/89143544056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1o9t3h92tbk637o9t40hikc1h/zoxitixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/73139503233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e2580a5e9---17425788026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vupesofiwosaxamido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdhvhec6lchm7sjaqfk0scdtmp/52896425721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv2mcd1sm7ik8hj6kuu3oagg16/pitanovudumeruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd2777682a---fadutexatupaguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/kimuboxufojizofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimivujuvaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104281518221263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867f98a49e---buwevikexaduzenetibijuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd73f920e5---salasabivotumasuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7ec43b307---25696789269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/90355295548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a060301329c---66304038150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=homage+middle+agesPDF 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_off0001e0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E0C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001f8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F8DD 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 2b14b17dc3c4310cd6d12e7cf65e261c52ad6ae7efad6248913c4a5ed1c18fb6
font_02_sfnt_off00020fb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20FB5 17388 bytes
SHA-256: 3f5c5d70690df4f35c5089c966d0d937e458f3e5777faa2cd18e2f43ebd30cb2