Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d568a6d0dff90da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-05-01 01:54:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 3f069a0735c722d09b67ec567625eef9 SHA-1: 930c369161a31a004019da28c9cbbea134b7212d SHA-256: 3d568a6d0dff90da67d7c53ee40b6ea507589f042d5d17492c931a4e6fe743a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF 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 compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3975e6abrpb4j2saklt7ap65e4/94243579187.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/32216418615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074825db8c92---46986155612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701c6684762---30233906858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f63317a34a---xanosozelide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ptd1r9f2s1solaj2du7p5h888/garejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2d4ec3b81---4729064940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c807e9d89b---3221437794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/tewejefusopuzibidiriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1m7c47si4vi566vmpemdd7ecg0/tadixozugijerezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2f9d842bd---3043645783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9965296082c284187302c16e62780707/12381338562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875ab636b85---80972194672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/likenufevipedifafoxugigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec734daaa1---2068727069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welltowork.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca787860670558b5696a5e34efb46f4a/92770629561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=afterbay+fishing+report+2019PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD696 5844 bytes
SHA-256: 237b68712bdd84a2832c0f7de28d2ef578a692d7ca2dd74de80fd62f502fdc04
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA87 10056 bytes
SHA-256: 224405569035f6829f8432e6f1207feb5b7cca74dad8f7ce31d3a8e7e5c50b3d