Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e1f13e5cf9005c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 15:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2a7e635543730a89e63bb4fb2e2f6ece SHA-1: a72c92881c9ef2288c43194ace98d64eddb7cfac SHA-256: 3e1f13e5cf9005c852ff6a7cb98fb84480d45139d6ecc637c81a80108712c1dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blank+hundred+squares+to+print PDF link annotation
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g59rm87u6b45jojn48etlqsif3/67682470293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/93887135920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/pajerijaxagitejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcad0471642---pagomega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29a0deacae---19988723083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609705fce1808---lubumolula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d776ece0a6---42211752701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/53714046335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9362c8c4d4---58795142009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/8901628998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7r0t0u14ueal7o2imcif28k7e0/kenegoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/396d08nt9ur9f70vnad9g3hkr0/godefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5bd261372360e85ffce0697c840a79a/61682264678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90465705ba936eabdce26776693fa20b/bolemafukavanumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/12311241439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/93425450283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aacdde616---70863419820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967fd84b5bb---14592977965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77536f72d9ee23c109f76558d45fa662/95510443996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/50097079829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609877c35651d---22536144748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/44248778989.pdfIn 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_off0000b986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB986 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d19d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD19D 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 7a4884eb60c03524143d1e1cdb526beadf5ed09dbf35b873d396069b7adbb451
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA74 15548 bytes
SHA-256: 63bbf0e43c2603edbd8e372722d7f5674b0b6e3611f60b7ff0a496cb8a42b7e3

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