Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d4cae8961ff8195…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b1e3938f5a246a47f8b65a05ac1d28e4 SHA-1: 6ab97b452970b1a7ae59acdd757955fdbeea1e5c SHA-256: 3d4cae8961ff81954ac2e61c900a50308214ef2bf2f5469430bb4c5c04baa3ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a redirection mechanism to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b980da983---10531199646.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://perrymanreunion.com/clients/f/f8/f8644f0eb9578147d5589f75b8c3e300/File/19289996329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608460419fb0a---82692014358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/wosojofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/legaperunada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-4/20210604194408832375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210809_D575E2745F174CFD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/tajaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fee33be5b6---duvujutaminivezidimatezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fs9h03olfj17qrs1lc9kddca6a/40372311226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u335ikb5sbqlvl6bs8h1bqccq7/fanejodipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/29903045108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521031339729463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/gavolorekosusozagolakose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8d65639f480b2b6dea1dd284f421f58/pisafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5b8c6de28b92bc6576e67e700847ab/xuwobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/56299585605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/zakiwitomexogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21708904851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192d804791909436aa98d8643a33f4fe/bodubafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5922934018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/16097092404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2r6qmeuder5b5gtnbf1rouk63/52303654476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/13024066679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/sopiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jokipovarigaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/zijolosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/52499513993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ephedrine+synthesis+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_off0000be43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE43 16496 bytes
SHA-256: f22a578b7ca94794a33213555dc1159b3c9dd315cf3df14d29c173a4d0f75682
font_01_sfnt_off0000e901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE901 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10118 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 82fe1b20e2f685bd1ff0822d587abb044bc206a479fdd458c93306179861fb8f