Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3db2872b3233f622…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:09:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 12fc0c30ab42028630dd07b9f3eaa2b0 SHA-1: 3ea14728efc0cc4a3a3105062b8e1e3c9e9b32ad SHA-256: 3db2872b3233f622e0734c71325fb10432e1ced7c06c7c70b08dcd44fe43ca8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other malicious PDFs. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where the initial PDF serves as a lure to redirect users to further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa3ba633f---900917932.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/susatixesasot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/zukafibopokokisagojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawatupifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e73414911805601f25a4a8030e777c91/nonipugovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/97332692718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonekarusa.com/contents//files/gekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40279699080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/81626372726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.com/img/file/xubadawotakagatetaxubapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdee4f2ca5e84a3926302a9474d4b47a/malizuxovajosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maimungkorn.com/UserFiles/file/larabikoritixeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c23085196d12639794eace6f94a79c1/69362328024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/29659963093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/67478278790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba21166d17d---kugixelenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/22143030751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/58794644533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b0dced07d---lofaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bf8b2bc11cd---sakexitewupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc56f327e5---gobovesulimutavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/wanebijafufanemutudupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d96469c38b0---31551010897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mng4gh82hm2gf0cmt20jc7rauf/54705734314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=carino%27s+lunch+menu+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_off0000e23e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23E 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 85b4b7f5b18baca966fc12db85983b6b2c1bf58fe6bde09a779706ac12ca0a90
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6A 19220 bytes
SHA-256: 1174308dff79ad7551804d93e503ca4023ba1146b616f63b33eae4768c7e1268
font_02_sfnt_off00012d0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1