Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d7e2b7fdcf9551c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 02:44:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: aaf34ed5292e3e4e142bfce26649f0aa SHA-1: d26b29b2c98c2374ab0cac7355ca23adf5d35cc4 SHA-256: 3d7e2b7fdcf9551cd8bf74cc753aadb4b610ec5e728fb1dafa67b3df7a988a1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=influenzinum+200+materia+medica PDF link annotation
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc8756dcac---66139638862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/doxebadutikiwexapoted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16cb08d5825aac94af12c06c4319ef96/50223033050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrsdfohgtmm2pr3ov53fcvt9vg/89771971501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf93b22dcce---butorani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e91d0c2a8---donolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a677a58251e---46134345408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gl8i2g3sh07h24su0j6fegrsnh/71061487962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e98193a2c---kelimenufavitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91fd3cc01ad83c3fc673a8c1da291543/waserixanokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089aea30c7cf---96806614639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/1068391749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b769ebce559af423984572947cf7f33/67512758522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04f9d11b03afbeb6a697836126464267/pufanupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5ab314f917eacb3a93de56d1a37943e/43064621849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c2adbdf83---zabebiwadurawitozafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36qi2ppq0r6s8sqgqmcid2t1c4/gejuminaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAB 5024 bytes
SHA-256: b4b6504904832fa1d090471ebd71ff531ceaa05d8a4f3f993b5dc7bba3bfc3cc
font_01_sfnt_off0001009d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1009D 11896 bytes
SHA-256: b5e697e3ee072fe4179f5e8597c09d728c46756bf4a94380905874956e3d0b3e
font_02_sfnt_off00012906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12906 16264 bytes
SHA-256: a2412d0e6d5f402c0376fc7dab03031ccf4bb487359de322c483657d8dc34117
font_03_sfnt_off00013e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E8A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3