Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d85e3f1867ebe78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:09:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ad466af93194ab22632c708b4edc2d1f SHA-1: a53b6986c54f8c6b2bc98bba7f993648afda2cff SHA-256: 3d85e3f1867ebe78b4658ab98b996c68edc4f62393f78b9e0f9bfaf2a7d75370
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier and ClamAV both flagged this PDF as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links on compromised sites strongly implies a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861a6b37ba4---19817332058.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/25903320547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fl-forever.com/upfiles/editor/files/14583235782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24932432274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peseseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a007a64b786f25e5a154bf9a59dbb5d8/58248814051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/29933248298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ebab2409f2d7bb6e81b6c1b4579ba0/95567160601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i85c6tifufeq5vrut64k33phb4/vadugolasazurowavuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/firokagonepevilanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/61423296343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8cf5871463---4119563582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/dojaseledaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1b9fbc9a7d---zikapewotavuzevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/19098790841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol4d29emjv9d0i5gg68mh7s64l/rusugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29813624030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/55577312257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/36176724425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be6594edfc---zarejevebogapisovuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/34771651255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/vepopaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ad6754bb2---27128228148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mesin+jahit+butterfly+manual+baruPDF link annotation
    • http://s250801404.onlinehome.fr/img/uploaded/file/61921151294.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_off0000ca08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA08 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 5fbb0d593fe2fe4c1481262dc5d803d0035c816da9e6bd1cebf786d8892a5b48
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D0 17736 bytes
SHA-256: ce63cd38f2ee170c3158a10bdbd04639edfc4549b22c82f24dc97e087cea9405
font_02_sfnt_off000110d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1