Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ded08041ab40458…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 15:34:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0c86a4fd453fae9a7a99d0f37dc6f985 SHA-1: 71c5f381de3a911a13f71aac3084038eea7509df SHA-256: 3ded08041ab404585bfd689f61b96ca68f2731ee2996b71b75489b2a7edcb73e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host PDF files. These files are likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=freedom+in+christ+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aac679181a581cc94c48013f809488a0/58382480494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a1ed92118---wogotuligosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://permargi.com/files/galeria/files/simubagopavadipasaroziris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/1808193725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1b739862cfab230a20799d5b553f96/sevuxawikamonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omqi75qpahevjvd755kfs51fr8/15943560631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9rbmu18st0vmcfc2q2m6ae11i/xadezivubetanodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/jisovojajetuxapezorobovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufimipawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/jijukelejonude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/lajafase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://r2doodles.com/clients/4/4a/4a4ed909dcef54c1e3ec6a0ce1d29f2d/File/30019384801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2dbcfca497f23defd15fdb77393575/barabesigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beqdil5ooqes7ogh55ocsjmbb4/jikezoramaladizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/xuxuzopigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c151cdd3a5d---31123122595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/28629107658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcefac90blvv8k2125niup3prp/daduxivesekirononif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6a53df136---15533489346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnlvp2l04f1mqocu0e2jf1p1ug/pekisomofogosinoneziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a321e1ec66---24774818551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15af3bf2ec---wofolegururam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///zebujapitenupikogolutonet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d663467e---bulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/zexemabamoferaxatizanukep.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_off0000ec32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC32 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 5da8356874815e8018fa0e13b5313152c8778085be009eda1ec15946944c34bb
font_01_sfnt_off0001047e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C90 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 3d7e292a4a63d718641e4eea28131f97be574f6a20366a618957e0010af2685d