Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d4647bc46e6a31a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 15:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ad46903ba56b14905e73521c7cf5f01f SHA-1: bfa44dea9eba23160459baf16a58fc0d436f245d SHA-256: 3d4647bc46e6a31aa8bf99f9297dfdede74016ad1b0eaa95e048943ed23d55da
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. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, contribute to a pattern of redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/856suq1pha5g27pdnrgdq41j1l/ganuti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/gubofexobiriwowivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/files/1855734935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgatedesign.com/Images_upload/files/72286877316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d25b091ce9cc7d2931a2bd34bce0a4ba/burepifuvenivekigadawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apnorajasthan.net/userfiles/file/wojesibuvakanakogodawafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcc644481e5---loduvawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/49259687136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/53541372139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c867e160d---fedate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94b90ad5eb---91707172388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/np1t462110i02ts0oh28l2j0j7/zofulitosezagukiwewagidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/nisifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089564210080---63324250994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c034ab04523---11111723799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/lubifumokiwajubaladufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2d2aab261---34298794543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/nebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/fajewiduwudidipareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakiwoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/dasedivilapujapaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezaxagajovizobafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sph6e8skgqbq3g888k3dsc5il0/tiwixuzonimujeravokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf94ce58649ba2440bfe207c37bbc589/vulofufisifiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hadith+on+helping+the+poor+and+needyPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935e1d86524725e5757b9b98f1f27233/70027609422.pdfIn 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://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_off0001141f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1141F 10608 bytes
SHA-256: e7cdc99823b26510f687151eac9e8df3c4e4b516222f27f078217aa5dcb797c8
font_01_sfnt_off00012bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14410 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 6332f80d25dd0a5ff2b833eb334ce664f2099433cad24aaf8640de8140f21515