Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d32d3603a01c875…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-14 18:18:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a1e9be2290e5b5fc6c9d37991b6a1241 SHA-1: eb8cf1826eb313b08742cb0dafce41d2fd91515a SHA-256: 3d32d3603a01c875a62ba9f06f26fcf0801a7196e4886b12c3329910d27be8c2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates that the document may be instructing users to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bitsat+question+paper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i50tuatt054kjud4sp6k6i3bm3/37855261268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6c1f3b51---numaruviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqib8hd6ajhkmh5socfp1al5d9/17003995504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/39048920964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bob06o63tba9569mjkkqjf35h0/bugakovegumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/365d84pfcmtrk6o2hq63nafet4/71298452208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/jarazobezefiwaxodeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/11953649493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f69eb6rv22t8oreriljebek950/jimeximosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/50821108351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ffd471d4876b8258f96e20ad54eda4/mudujedorevamomelixigegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/59752944302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32452ac61b---40626685816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70dbff3948---rusupepufizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/dureneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85A 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 3534009eddccfeadf9add5e5fcccef0e30b3eed605d0a6cbe4db64aa033b15a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA08 10656 bytes
SHA-256: a200ad7936609105268db1902462bdc17baeabbcce063d442a03bda7b74f4242