Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3de7efb0cbc37580…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:35:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: fb95d093bdd33463ddc99282d14d8754 SHA-1: 9a60e6fd06479546a10b7270747c61e0f9ec176f SHA-256: 3de7efb0cbc37580a8882f6a36ae9487f10f04e62e8fdcafeed5e6f8a3a8eac3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous links and the use of compromised hosting indicate a distribution mechanism for potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9f025a3291dde6945e830b8d6d231d9/47462510311.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejcanal05ki5uql7bvgv556go2/27536586877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotamborra.eu/userfiles/files/91748518491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/ragagojodate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/68809885275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea0940687cb2d3897347b43f4d3fb0f6/32631304490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///75066390456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/jarakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/3879897198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13e7c5e0504288172002055fbcd19cf6/lowabutokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee3267bb52---sutamotazibexiwezipuzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/mogubeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tabsft0ktrj0m95qrtk42iqcir/luwejubogobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707f7be287580b1e82ffe5944d27e272/92117410663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19a2842c5e---lifodiwufiduwomatugunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/wujovogigurumewapere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/vuzokiroserafagibulitazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b322c24be4356e4b7e6bc8ddc11509ac/nuvufaxifapinifiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0010288ca0db07f4ce609f130fabcf/xekifudidevunananijise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19s91jui5m469msr7430ronvv7/82974582271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6j1gej4ceareun8aq443c9ggi/zefikirikotireboxetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/kiwivisovalubemone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845720e4520---fuwisinodupeful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/2782993412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+a+deeper+voice+ftmPDF 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_off00011e64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13676 19040 bytes
SHA-256: cdd3780c04f0fb70073077b4663114ccd54390db3768182506c913d1244f7b82
font_02_sfnt_off0001669b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1669B 10788 bytes
SHA-256: b3c1afb330327dbca0f03040fabac89304a39e603ee5da5cf38a5fdd7aaa5893