Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3de779613ba533ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-21 09:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 63a203d310d6e095e1e43058d04166ed SHA-1: 1dddeaa5a1c16cae3f1f2d6e579565b18e608ff7 SHA-256: 3de779613ba533ed0fa019ebc15bc6ee719329b9b588de3ab11873f8e8efc5c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a URL with 'utm_term=download' further indicates a lure to download content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+naruto+impact PDF link annotation
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2d730d421---vofuvikozuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b69cce28294---92288816082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7537447f0ae690b797b07af4c5117c31/kotuzatexotukedokuzoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/kopezebenasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e854ed76f79c3c4050df14fb4060ff9/lijerofadisajejexiwebege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a062592e25e---pubipilokitukulinawibuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/xufasosowifadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i01hcod9qrjuvglkhirb7jj83c/manijenemaxulegigijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adce5369ed1---xikaroresiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrn1m1fk8m2u5dksaq99i793nj/44544491219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31168b2ecb---xogizaperojekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8a9cea0e3---17638368194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/75704970844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba77dba2036---pesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30164425506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cabb78c285107437fa7659c0dbe1434d/renexelabatomoposivaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7197cffb88d446db075e8e908ff8d710/dunugagaraferarajutaxozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqrrbg1rk04or5uhof3dv3b286/rikipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE712 5132 bytes
SHA-256: be903a40840a8beb2c675db552d75eb3a4a3fe464eb2b55bf5ab46cd9c4de39c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF889 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 63a5836c840ff53650a1b34cce18e4746b2a6f360dc67d8654a49f87be6b60ab